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Re: Exercise #14 Multi-Moon LOP's
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2008 Aug 8, 08:33 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2008 Aug 8, 08:33 -0700
Federico,
The LOP from this exercise is nearly parallel to the ships course
so the 1900 DR longitude will be about the same for the given course
of 080� true.
On Aug 8, 3:34�am, "Federico Rossi" wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I was browsing through the exercises that Jeremy kindly posted on the list
> back in June. Today I was working out exercise 14 Multi-moon LOP's and I've
> seen there was no solution posted (if I'm not wrong), so here's mine.
>
> I've averaged the sights and obtained a Hs of 65 deg 59,8' at 09 09 14 UTC
> (or 19 09 14 ZT). This yields to a calculated altitude of 65 deg 55,5' (I
> use the haversine method and Norie's tables 'cause I like working the old
> way) and to an intercept of 1.3 NM forward. The azimut is 160 deg. Moving
> back the LOP to 19 00 00 ZT and assuming the intersection between this LOP
> and the course made good as the most probable position I got a fix at 14 deg
> 17,0' N 142 deg 58,5' E.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Federico
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