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Lagrangian Points

JamesBrown
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I would like to point my antenna at the L4 and L5 points. I know that they are leading and lagging the sun by 60 degrees so does that mean that I can simply calculate the suns position and then add and subtract 60 degrees?

 

Sound to simple to be right.

 

Regards....... Jim

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No, I don't think that's quite right. I think what that means is that if you look at our orbit from above, the angle Earth-Sun-L4 (a triangle with the Earth, the Sun, and L4 at its corners) will be 60 degrees.

 

I think you'd have to do some trigonometry to figure out where to aim. I'm not entirely sure how to do it.

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