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At 06:39 20/06/2011, you wrote:

>Ah, but remember, Jack Aubrey was an accomplished astronomer, he
>made his own telescope which was set up at his estate and he had
>presented a paper at the Royal Society.
>
>gl


That was later, when he was a post captain on half pay with nothing
better to do with his time.

I think the observation may have been supposed to be a lunar
occultation of Venus. But I cannot make sense of "Two seven four" as a reading.

O'Brian is usually pretty good at the historicity of the rest of his
Aubrey-Maturin writings and I would have hoped that he would have
created a navigation scenario that would have had the smell of
authenticity. It would seem not.

GK

   

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