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Re: Hydrographic Office Pub.No.230
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 Mar 4, 09:54 -0400
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 Mar 4, 09:54 -0400
Also in Bowditch Vol 1 1977. The section on comparison of methods of celestial. So presumably carried on at least till then. --Hewitt On 3/4/09, Paul Hirosewrote: > > I wish all questions were so easy to answer. Pulled my 1984 Bowditch off > the shelf and found HO 230 in the index. > > "H.O. Pub. No. 230 (Goetz), High Latitude Celestial Navigation Tables, > designed in 1945 by Roy F. Goetz, was published by the U. S. Navy > Hydrographic Office in 1946." > > [Two paragraphs describing the layout of the tables omitted. I will post > them if anyone is interested.] > > "Only 400 of these tables were published. They were intended only for > use in military aircraft operating beyond the latitude range of H.O. > Pub. No. 218. Aftr Pub. No. 249 became available, H.O. Pub. No. 230 was > canceled." > > > -- > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---