NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Oct 29, 09:57 -0700
Paul Hirose wrote:
"Apparently nobody else is curious about this -- how and why did you
determine height of eye to .01 foot?"
The 'how' is probably by some software 'app'. There are some available where you can click on a location and the app will determine your altitude above sea level from topographic data. Obviously anything beyond the nearest foot is irrelevant for celestial navigation purposes, but extra digits do no harm. The 'why' here may be because "height of eye" is an input in my online lunar calculator. It's only required if altitudes are actually observed. Otherwise it's ignored.
And you wrote:
"Note that "All times are LMT (EDT; UT -4)" is self-contradictory."
Good catch. Of course it's obvious that he meant local zone time.
-FER
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