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From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2010 Jun 14, 23:01 -0700
Dear Jeremy,
Just Back from the 100 year celebration of the French Naval Aviation in Toulon Hyères south of France on-board our Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle during the entire already memorable night 12-13 June 2010
Many big ships were there, from a great number of Great Navies, and in particular your Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman ... with my Former Squadron VFA 105 flying the Super Hornet.
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It explains my delay on tackling your Lunar.
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Working through your data :
07 Jun 2010, with Delta T = 66.9s, and
Position S0716.2E07226.4, and
Distance between limbs 64°04'8 (corrected for sextant error), I find a Lunar time equal to 06h24m40s9 UT, i.e. 12h24m40.9s Local Time (ZD -6)
As an independent check (Thanks again Frank), from these results tossed at Frank's On-Line Lunar Computer ( http://www.historicalatlas.com/lunars/lunars_v4.html ), I am getting :
Error in Lunar : 0.0 second of time and
Approximate Error in longitude : 0°00'8
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Therefore, it would look that Local Time of Muner was indeed 12h24m40.9s, while you published it as " 12:24:37 local ", which - as most often with you - is a quite amazing result : not even 4 seconds on UT determination ...
Attaboy Mate !
Best Regards from you Lunarhollah
Antoine M. "Kermit" Couëtte
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