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    Re: Extracting the HP of the Moon from the Nautical Almanac daily pages
    From: Frank Reed
    Date: 2015 Feb 6, 14:44 -0800

    Stan, you wrote:
    "In 'real life' this is pretty unimportant, since the HP never varies by more than 0.1' from one hour to the next"

    Exactly! COMPLETELY unimportant. The choice is not tough: do you want to give students instructions that are more accurate by at most a tenth of a minute of arc (which translates to even less than that for average altitudes), or give them instructions that are less prone to error and do not introduce a pointless extra step. If you're actually writing "practical" instructions, the first choice, going for a trivial improvement in accuracy, would be foolish, wouldn't it? If you are working on the last line at the bottom of a page, would you really want navigators turning to the next page to get that HP from the next line??
    Use the easy one line data lookup.

    Frank Reed
    Conanicut Island USA

       
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