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Re: 18 june 2013 lunar distance
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2013 Jun 30, 16:04 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2013 Jun 30, 16:04 -0700
Dave Walden wrote: > For 18 June 2013 at 3:30:00UT1, geocentric lunar distance to Altair: USNO MICA 2.0 106 34 28.48 (= 106 34.4747), calculated from geocentric apparent places with respect to true equator and equinox at TT = 03:31:07.1. 12 49 1.478 -8 12 48.78 Moon 19 51 28.291 +8 54 23.41 Altair Delta T = 32.184 + 35 - 0.0661627, the last figure from the USNO Earth Orientation database search page http://maia.usno.navy.mil/search/search.html --
