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Re: Eclipse Sun Moon LOPs
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2017 Aug 22, 11:21 -0700
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2017 Aug 22, 11:21 -0700
Greg Rudzinski’s eclipse observations processed with Navigation Spreadsheets (standard temperature and pressure assumed):
SUN:
GHA: 76° 35.3’
Dec: N 11° 52.8’
SD: 15.8’
Ho: 45° 19.5’
Azimuth: 109
Intercept: 0.4 A
MOON:
GHA: 76° 09.7’
Dec: N 12° 28.8’
SD: 16.1’
HP: 59.0’
Ho: 45° 21.6’
Azimuth: 108
Intercept: 0.2 T
Two-body fix:
Lat: 34° 39.9’ N
Lon: 119° 01.5’ W
Distance of celestial fix from GPS position: 31 NM; along direction: 019, which is the direction of the two LOPs (that are very nearly parallel with separation only about 1°).
Right now I’m on travel with no metric graph paper at hand, so I just attach a schematic cartoon instead.
Peter Hakel
https://www.navigation-spreadsheets.com/
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