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Re: Puzzling Sun sights yesterday
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Sep 1, 17:52 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Sep 1, 17:52 -0400
On 8/30/2015 11:37 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > These are all great ideas and suggestions, folks! Please keep them > coming, and I will tell you my version of puzzling this out tomorrow. Looking at the NA, declination is changing by 21!6 per day. Looking at your intercepts and treating -0.6 as a outlier, it looks like your personal equation that day put your intercepts a wee bit on the high side. The average of your your mystery intercepts is 23!7 with a SD of 0.58. A bit of a stretch given your typically excellent performance from 21!6 to 23.7 but consider the other evidence. On 30 August you stated a resolution to your cliff hanger would be posted "tomorrow." August 31 has come and gone and I am still dangling at cliff's edge by my fingernails, proving you can be off by a day. Mystery solved--mostly ;-)
