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    Re: Accuracy of Cook's Lunars: video analysis
    From: Antoine Couëtte
    Date: 2025 Dec 27, 07:38 -0800

    Certainly a quite nice video, but:

    (1) For my ruined ears - even devastated ears - I was a Landing Signal Officer on board Aircraft Carriers, the background music - way too loud - makes it almost unreadable to me. Especially at the beginning the Praeludium in C minor of Part One of the Well Tempered Keyboard by Johan Sebastian Bach takes up all my attention. I cannot unlock my attention from the music itself, since I studied and still play this Music on the Keyboard. Maybe should I try earphones then.

    (2) - Cook's very early Lunars in the Pacific were earlier adressed here on NavList (@ 12 to 15 years ago) and I do remember one example with a Lunar distance over 130° . I had just joined NavList then and it prompted me into solving Lunars a different way, since I had only very little programming space left and available on my HP 41.

    (3) - I have been reworking a great number of Cook's Lunars published after his subsequent journeys. Most if not all of them are freely downloadable from the net. But for me from France I cannot access this first Pacific Ocean Journey printed report, i.e. the very printed journal the Student is using. It is the one with this 135° LD excerpt earlier published on NavList by Frank long ago (is this specific 135° or so Lunar adressed in the sudent's report ?).

    Would it be possible that I get from somebody of you a scanned copy of this First Pacific Journey directly onto my private e-mail box here-under ?

    Thanks in advance,

    Kermit

    antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr

       
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