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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2010 May 9, 14:11 -0700
Dear Sir,
Unfortunately almost no time (just a few minutes now) for me to study your example more in depth ...
But I would think that Jupiter (almost on the ecliptic) is currently not an appropriate body for a Lunar : it is much too close from the Moon. With the Moon ecliptic latitude currently being around 3 or 4 degrees as I could observe this morning, all this means that the apparent Moon Jupiter topocentric distance will vary at a much lower rate than usually : it means that any Moon Jupiter Lunar by our current date can not yield any accurate knowledge of UT.
This might be an explanation.
Best Regards
Antone M. "Kermit" Couëtte
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