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Re: Dennert & Pape MHR-1 Dennert & Pape MHR-1 HR-2
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Jan 27, 22:42 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2013 Jan 27, 22:42 -0800
I find it surprising that neither Bygrave or Dennert & Pape came up with a method for dealing with the situation of the body's declination being within 20 minutes of zero since this situation exists for the sun (the most important body) for two days in the spring and two days in the fall, four days out of 365 days a year. My method was not hard to discover and provides accurate results for this situation so it s a mystery to me why similar instructions were not provided with these instruments. Without providing such a procedure navigators would need to learn and carry a complete other celestial computation method to be able to operate each day of the year. gl --- On Sun, 1/27/13, Hewitt Schlereth <hhew36@gmail.com> wrote:
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