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Re: Direction and alternate methods
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Jun 10, 23:11 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Jun 10, 23:11 -0400
On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 19:29 US/Eastern, George Huxtable wrote: > The traditional lunar-distance method doesn't involve > the horizon at all (except in measuring the moon and other-body > altitudes, > which are not needed to any accuracy), so it maintains all the > reading-precision that the observer can give it. That's why it was > chosen > by Maskelyne in the 18th century. George, Just to quibble that Mayer was also instrumental in instituting lunars. It wasn't only Maskelyne. Fred
