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    Re: Lunar distances
    From: Michael Wescott
    Date: 2002 Jan 25, 11:16 AM

    Chuck Griffiths  said:
    > I'm curious whether anyone has an old enough edition of Bowditch to
    > still have tables for clearing lunar distances. I believe that the
    > tables and explanations were included until the mid-60's. What did
    > these tables provide solutions for?
    
    I was curious about this myself some years back and couldn't find
    decent explanation of the lunar method in editions of Bowditch back
    as far as the 1920's.
    
    --
            Mike Wescott
            Wescott_Mike@EMC.COM
    

       
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