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Re: Chauvenet lunar distance method
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2023 Feb 18, 14:16 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2023 Feb 18, 14:16 -0800
On 2/18/2023 1:15 PM, Modris Fersters wrote: > I have a question about your Chauvenet program. Which Moon's SD value > should be entered: geocentric SD or SD corrected for augmentation? Geocentric semidiameter. See page 402 in his Spherical Astronomy book: https://archive.org/details/manualofspherica01chauiala/page/402/mode/2up?view=theater My program is (almost) an exact implementation of the Chauvevet formulas. Only refraction is different. But in tests, my refraction model was very close to the Bessel model used by Chauvenet. There should be no practical difference. -- Paul Hirose sofajpl.com
