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Re: Getting started with "clearing the lunar distance".
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Apr 26, 19:21 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2004 Apr 26, 19:21 +0100
John Brenneise wrote- >I was informed that this list had a prior discussion about telling time >(GMT) using the tables for clearing the lunar distance. > >Can someone point me to the right place on the server archive to start >reading messages? Arthur Pearson's website is at. It is designed to provide useful information about lunar-distance techniques, or pointers to where it can be found. Modesty should (but won't) forbid me to refer to a seies of postings "About lunars" which I posted a year or two ago: Arthur's website supplies pointers to the latest archived versions. Some of these have been updated, as my own understanding has improved, mostly as a result of Nav-L discussion. To my shame, concluding postings on deriving longitude from the resulting GMT have been long-promised, but have not yet materialised. That series was intended to explain lunars to someone who was familiar to celestial navigation, but was new to lunar distances, so it ought to meet John's requirement. George. ================================================================ contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. ================================================================