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From: Paul Dolkas
Date: 2013 Jan 29, 21:53 -0800
Gary-
Thanks. I’m trying to recreate exactly how the watch was to be used. In order to get the LHA of the sun, you need to have an accurate watch to do a regular sun shot. Is this what the article was referring to in step 4? I can’t think of any other way to do this.
The other thing I’m a little confused about, is that you would never reset your watch during a flight, unless you had another one on board. (step 4). I would much rather imagine where the hour/minute/second hands would be for the time you want to convert, and then read off the corresponding degrees/arcmin/arcsec.
-Paul
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Gary LaPook
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:51 PM
To: paul@dolkas.net
Subject: [NavList 22160] Re: Re: Re: Re: Weems article in latest Air&Space Mag
From which you compute the LHA of the sun which is a measure of local apparent time (LAT.)
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