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First, I have a set of observations from last night that I'm hoping you might
have a look at George, and see if it looks like I'm still headed in the right
direction. From approximately 27-42.0 N, 82-44.2 W I took a set of observation
as follows:

(All times GMT 19 March followed by altitudes Degree-Minutes)

Venus 00:11:41 7-50.6
Moon 00:12:48 44-52.6
Venus 00:14:02 7-25
Moon 00:14:02 45-25.6

Lunar Distances
00:14:59 37-43.4
00:15:27 37-43.2
00:16:01 37-43.0

Venus 00:16:36 6-43
Moon 00:17:31 43-51.6
Venus 00:18:09 6-24
Moon 00:19:09 43-30

I roughly averaged the sights and used the following for my calculations:

Venus 7-5.6
Moon 44-12.5
Distance between 37-43.2

From which I calculated:

B .69733
P 38.43635
R 6.65151
d 37.97333
D 38.72479

SD 15.1995
HP 55.1

D1 (00:00:00) 38.58036
D2 (01:00:00) 39.03829

T 00:18:55 v. real time of observation of 00:15:29

So, based on the fact that the Moon was rather high and, by my observations, was
moving at an apparent speed of about 24 arc minutes an hour can I assume that
some of my error is due to "parallactic retardation"? Or, did I make some more
basic mistake?

One other question from Part 4, how do Bruce's tables compare to the tables that
used to be in Bowditch?

Chuck








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