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Re: Celestial Navigation classes in the UK in June
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Feb 8, 12:33 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Feb 8, 12:33 -0800
Frank,
I know you don't think much of the Martelli tables but I think it worthy to add to the 19th century navigation methods discussion as both a way to reduce longitude or a Sumner line. Robert Bernecky did a nice table V up-grade which I have copied and included in my 1934 edition (53 pages). See link to table.
https://NavList.net/m2.aspx/Corrected-Martelli-Tables-Bernecky-jan-2013-g21699
The polar coordinate function on some pocket trig calculators would be a worthy option to combine with the law of cosines pocket trig calculator method for modern celestial sight reductions. See attached PDF
Greg Rudzinski
