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Re: Bowditch tables 12 and 13
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2012 Aug 15, 06:07 -0700
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2012 Aug 15, 06:07 -0700
I'm sorry to say that I can't tell you how the formuala is derived. i'm just a humble sailor who knows where to find the formula I need to get work done, but not all that much about the mathmatics behind them.
I don't know where the .06 factor comes from as geometric horizon would seem to me to be a straight line tangent to the curve of the earth.
Jeremy
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