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Re: Compass Check
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2016 Mar 20, 11:38 -0400
Bruce
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2016 Mar 20, 11:38 -0400
Sorry... I left out one word....... “.....the azimuth at sunset
should be about 285 degrees”.
Bruce
On 3/19/2016 12:48 PM, Bruce J. Pennino wrote: > Just thumbing through an old Eldridge Pilot Book and noticed table which > shows " Sun's True Bearing (azimuth) at Rising or Setting". I'm sure > this has been discussed before, but on the first day or spring and fall > the sun rises at an azimuth true east 90 and sets at 270 degrees west. > I'm at 42N 72 W where the local variation is 15 west. So I add 15 dgrees > and the azimuth of sunset should be 285 degrees magnetic. Not going to happen. Center of a sun holding at 0 degrees declination all day viewed in a vacuum adjusted for variation--maybe.
