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Sky & Freesat fringe reception
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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 43810" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>Yes and no, depending on where you are.</p><p></p><p>If you imagine the earth as a ball, with a line horizontally around the centre (the equator) and on that line there is a mark representing 0 degrees east/south. Now thirteen degrees east of that line (with 360 degrees being all the war round) Hotbird would be found. So Hotbird is 13 degrees east of south.</p><p></p><p>However, if you imagine you are looking at the satellite from the surface of the ball, the angle at which you are looking at it changes depending on where you are. If you are very far east you look at it from a different angle from if you were very far west, there is only one line of longitude in which the satellite is 13 degrees east of south from the ground. </p><p></p><p>I think this is all correct, but someone with more of an understanding might be able to correct me or word it better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 43810, member: 175235"] Yes and no, depending on where you are. If you imagine the earth as a ball, with a line horizontally around the centre (the equator) and on that line there is a mark representing 0 degrees east/south. Now thirteen degrees east of that line (with 360 degrees being all the war round) Hotbird would be found. So Hotbird is 13 degrees east of south. However, if you imagine you are looking at the satellite from the surface of the ball, the angle at which you are looking at it changes depending on where you are. If you are very far east you look at it from a different angle from if you were very far west, there is only one line of longitude in which the satellite is 13 degrees east of south from the ground. I think this is all correct, but someone with more of an understanding might be able to correct me or word it better. [/QUOTE]
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