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Re: Night moon sights
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Jan 30, 18:51 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Jan 30, 18:51 -0500
Frank, assuming that the moonlit horizon is wrong because (as you suggest, if I understand you) the observer is seeing the moonlight on the waves, which are above the real flat horizon...Then wouldn't the error, the false height, actually be equal to the wave height above the horizon? Which could be a calculated value to be taken into account during the sight reduction?
