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From: Russell Sher
Date: 2004 Sep 26, 18:45 +0200
A navigational problem in the Jan/Febr. 2004 edition of Ocean Navigator
Magazine (#135) posed a question which involved a navigator shooting the sun to
obtain an LOP. Since there is only one LOP there is therefore no fix, but the
one of questions asked is What is the Estimated Position? I imagine that it is
the position plotted on
the LOP as being the closest from the DR. Does anyone agree?
Obviously in Coastal navigation, the
estimated position is typically the position calculated from Course steered, log
reading and taking tidal streams or current into account, but here the context
is different.
(You can access the problem at - www.oceannavigator.com (look under browse by issue - choose jan/feb 2004, select the nav problem )
regards
Russell
