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Re: Upper limb correction for moon
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2013 Sep 1, 22:30 -0700
From: Bill Morris
Date: 2013 Sep 1, 22:30 -0700
Frank writes:
"Manual subtraction is more difficult than addition, and it is considerably more prone to error." Too right!
For the same reason it is on the whole better to have index error of a sextant off the arc so that the correction is additive ("If its off, put it on").
Similarly, it is better that a mechanical chronometer have a slight losing rate rather than a gaining one so that the correction is again additive.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
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