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Re: Death to the Intercept Method!
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2016 Nov 5, 14:14 +0000
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2016 Nov 5, 14:14 +0000
Once we decide that we are OK with electronic methods of calculation, then we can pick a platform on which all the complicated formulae and rules can be programmed once, and then just use that - (with the caveat that a pocket calculator may be the only gadget that will run on ambient light, if all other batteries are dead).
Following up on Sean C’s recommendation about the NA method:
https://navigationspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/many-body-celestial-fix-for-a-moving-vessel/
For an example of plotting LOPs on graph paper by means other than the intercept method, see:
https://navigationspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/lop-plotting-using-metric-graph-paper/
Peter Hakel
Following up on Sean C’s recommendation about the NA method:
https://navigationspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/many-body-celestial-fix-for-a-moving-vessel/
For an example of plotting LOPs on graph paper by means other than the intercept method, see:
https://navigationspreadsheets.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/lop-plotting-using-metric-graph-paper/
Peter Hakel
