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Re: LOP's without DR (so-called "Douwes's problem")
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2015 Feb 23, 10:14 +0000
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2015 Feb 23, 10:14 +0000
.But WHAT IF if you do not know at all your DR position ???
I am rather interested in the History of such discoveries and/or (re)discoveries.
When, by whom and where ?
James A Van Allen "An Analytic Solution of the Two Star Sight Problem of Celestial Navigation."
Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Vol 28, No 1 Spring 1981.
Geoffrey Kolbe