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