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--- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:

> My rote memory "forms," for both 229 and 249, have one duplication
> copying  only Ho from the Hs-Ho line to below the Hc line to get
> intercept.

Yeah, everybody seems to be running into the same "problem" that I did
- no matter how small we can condense the forms there's still that
transfer of Ho from it's calculation lines to where the intercept is
calculated. But if that's also the best that the experts on the list
can do, I'm satisfied that's probably as good as it's gonna get.  :-)

> I suppose I could forgo this duplication, but it would be a bit more
> mentally taxing to look at numbers from either different columns or
> far down the same column (I often do one or the other).

Which really begs the question of using a worksheet/form in the first
place (for me, the one that I came up with is both a memory aid and a
hedge against making stupid mistakes in the process, since I usually
don't do celnav on a daily basis).

> I tend not to use pre-made forms as I find them limiting for
> different  kinds of sights.  I pretty much run along for what
> I need to do and adapt as necessary.

Here lately since a lot of us are on the old-school kick of "doing it
manually" I can pretty much just use a sheet of blank paper without
needing "prompting" from a worksheet - but if I get away from doing
that for a few years (as I had up until now) I wouldn't want to bet the
navigation of the boat on being able to recall all of the steps from
memory... ;-)

> If you'd like, i can try and photograph or scan one of my nav
> notebook  pages to show you how I do it.

Sure, always glad to see what approaches others are using - one of the
biggest advantages to being on this mailing list.  :-)

--
GregR




--- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:

>
> My rote memory "forms," for both 229 and 249, have one duplication
> copying
> only Ho from the Hs-Ho line to below the Hc line to get intercept.
> I suppose
> I could forgo this duplication, but it would be a bit more mentally
> taxing to
> look at numbers from either different columns or far down the same
> column (I
> often do one or the other).  Otherwise I do no other  duplications.
>
> I tend not to use pre-made forms as I find them limiting for
> different  kinds
> of sights.  I pretty much run along for what I need to do and adapt
> as
> necessary.  For example, for a sunline verses an ex-meridian, I need
> to  calculate
> LHA (or t) for both and use the same basic "form" but I don't
> pre-print
> anything to accomplish this task, as it varies from there.   I just
> "download" it
> from my head for each kind of sight.  The only  "form" I use these
> days is a
> Bruce Starke Lunar as I am too much a newbie with  them to memorize
> the form yet.
>
> If you'd like, i can try and photograph or scan one of my nav
> notebook  pages
> to show you how I do it.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>
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