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Re: Old style lunar
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 12, 01:20 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 12, 01:20 -0500
Ken, Thank you for pointing your paper on Gregory's lunar. It is very interesting indeed. On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Ken Muldrew wrote: > Yes, when he takes two observations on either side > of the moon then most > of these dates would reduce his error considerably. This will not reduce the part of the error due to the almanac. (See my previous message for explanation). Averaging sights on two sides of the moon will only reduce index error, maybe "personal error" etc. Alex.