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Re: CelNav without sextants
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 21:28 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 2, 21:28 -0500
Frank: On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Frank Reed wrote: > You wouldn't need occultations since you've got the radio Yes. There are two separate questions here. 1. Sunsets/sinrise with a radio. 2. Occultations instead of the radio. > could use sunrise/set to get LOPs accurate > to 10 or 15 miles in typical cases. That I would like to check. 10 or 15 miles does not seem so bad. It's better than the conditions of the "Longitude Prize", is not it? > be able to measure five or ten degree altitudes > with a card and get better > LOPs than from sunrise/set, but that's just a hunch. Better than 10-15 miles? Surprising. Alex.
