NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Latitude and longitude around noon
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2017 Mar 28, 07:57 -0700
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2017 Mar 28, 07:57 -0700
Robin, you wrote "and with d = +0.1′ per hour the peak occurs 15.4s later than local noon".
Obviously you meant d = +1´per hour, and in 15.4s that influence the altitude by a quarter of an arc-second. Can you really extract those fifteen seconds of time from the raw data given by Frank, without knowing the longitude à priori? Aren't you pulling more information out of the data than that data contain?
Lars
