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Re: Latitude From Two Star Altitudes Only
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Apr 4, 05:26 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Apr 4, 05:26 -0700
Frank
Thanks for pointing that out. My apologies. As a last-minute afterthought, I decided to help people when they got to an arcsine to translate. Unfortunately, I confused the C I’d foolishly added to my diagram while figuring out the ABC of the cosine rule with the C in Capella, so my intended help was both wrong and a distraction. Please ignore it. The remainder of the question still holds. Incidentally, a second rework of my calculations this morning brings me to 0.55 minutes of where I started my test from.
