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Re: Digital Image CN Exercise
From: Al Szymanski
Date: 2010 Apr 5, 11:08 -0700
From: Al Szymanski
Date: 2010 Apr 5, 11:08 -0700
I am just curious now...
Are the two of you saying that one "could" dispense with a sextant and just take a digital image of the sun and horizon, perform the additional math required to render pixels to degrees and minutes, then follow normal math to get the altitude?
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