NavList:

Aaron Stein, you wrote:
"It is impossible to verify or improve something that is not understood. For that reason, I derived Stark's equation from spherical geometry, reverse engineered all of the tables in the book, and recreated them from formula. Attached is a PDF with explanation, and Excel worksheet with recreated tables. Eventually I will create a fully formatted document of the recreated tables similar to what thenauticalalmanac.com has done for the Almanac."

Bruce Stark created something in the 1990s. Reverse-engineering his creation, his labor of love, so that you can call it your own is problematic in many ways, but I believe there is sufficient reason to consider his work covered by legal copyright (and other rights). You mentioned "what thenauticalalmanac.com has done for the Almanac". Whether that website is violating intellectual property rights or not (they probably are), do you really see no difference? I don't approve of what you're up to personally, but in my role as manager of the NavList forum, regardless of my personal opinion, I have decided that it's not going to happen here. 

There are dozens of historical methods of clearing lunars from the past 250 years. You could reverse-engineer those to your hyper-nerd heart's content. Destroying a relatively minor modern method, the method developed and originally self-published by Bruce Stark at his own expense, simply because you found it in someone's product catalog... is an exquisite example of the amorality that too many unfortunate fools take away as the lesson of the open-source community. Just because you can reverse-engineer a thing doesn't mean that you own it. Just because you heard or read someone else's words, ideas, creations doesn't mean that you own their creativity.

Finally, for anyone concerned that sacred navigational mathematics is being hidden (censored!) from the navigation world's hyper-nerd "mental masturbators", denying them the cheap thrills they urgently require, be advised that Bruce Stark himself explained the math underlying his tables years ago in messages for this community. It was his right to explain what he chose to -- no one else's.

Frank Reed