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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Sean C
Date: 2013 Oct 29, 15:19 -0700
"Just to clarify, did you use the height from the GPS alone or from Google Earth given your latitude and longitude? If the height came from the GPS, bear in mind that this can be rather inaccurate. In any case, as I already noted, you don't need height of eye for clearing lunars unless you have measured the altitudes." -FER
Well, both, I guess. My GPS (a Magellan eXplorist 200) gave the elevation as 40 feet exactly. As I recall, the error from the unit was around 10-15 feet with WAAS active. Google earth (at the time) gave the same figure. Although, a recent check showed Google's figure has changed to 32 feet.
I understand HoE is not needed in this case. I just included it as an extra component of my [eye's] location, in case anyone was interested. :)
Oh, and thanks to everyone for the replies!
-Sean C.
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