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Re: Getting started with "clearing the lunar distance".
From: John Brenneise
Date: 2004 Apr 26, 12:40 -0700
From: John Brenneise
Date: 2004 Apr 26, 12:40 -0700
Thank-you all for the pointers. They should keep me busy for a while. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Huxtable"To: Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 11:21 AM Subject: Re: Getting started with "clearing the lunar distance". > John Brenneise wrote- > > >I was informed that this list had a prior discussion about telling time > >(GMT) using the tables for clearing the lunar distance. > > > >Can someone point me to the right place on the server archive to start > >reading messages? > > Arthur Pearson's website is at . It is designed to > provide useful information about lunar-distance techniques, or pointers to > where it can be found. > > Modesty should (but won't) forbid me to refer to a seies of postings "About > lunars" which I posted a year or two ago: Arthur's website supplies > pointers to the latest archived versions. Some of these have been updated, > as my own understanding has improved, mostly as a result of Nav-L > discussion. To my shame, concluding postings on deriving longitude from the > resulting GMT have been long-promised, but have not yet materialised. That > series was intended to explain lunars to someone who was familiar to > celestial navigation, but was new to lunar distances, so it ought to meet > John's requirement. > > George. > > ================================================================ > contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at > 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy > Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. > ================================================================