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    Re: Latitude and longitude around noon
    From: Rafal O.
    Date: 2017 Mar 9, 04:16 -0800

    In my previous post I made two mistakes:

    • when cubic interpolation is used for dermined Hs then its height is defined as a2 - a1^2 / (4*a0),
    • I took declination of Sun for time 12:12:05 UTC (LAN at 0°W) instead of 16:58:05 UTC (time when shots were taken). This leads to shift in latitude.

    Below are my calculations of latitude and longitude. To calculate time of LAN I used the fact that near this moment trajectory of Sun is like parabola or, in other words, quadratic function:

        Hs(t) = a*(t - t0) + hs
        Hs(t) = a2*t^2 + a1*t + a0

    Using programable calculator that allows to estimate these three parameters (a, t0, hs) or (a2, a1, a0) one can obtain both time of LAN and height of Sun at this moment. I used R program but programable calculator gives t0 and hs as -a1/(2*a2) and a2 - a1^2 / (4*a0), respectively.

    Here I present output of R:

    Formula: Hs ~ a * (t - t0)^2 + hs

    Parameters:
        Estimate Std. Error  t value Pr(>|t|)  
    t0 16.968047   0.002869  5914.69  < 2e-16 ***
    hs 41.492687   0.003912 10607.49  < 2e-16 ***
    a  -1.919479   0.045020   -42.64 1.02e-09 ***
    ---
    Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1

    Residual standard error: 0.008542 on 7 degrees of freedom

    Number of iterations to convergence: 3
    Achieved convergence tolerance: 3.286e-07

    Hence, time of LAN is 16.968047 UTC (16:58:05 UTC) and Hs 41°29.6'. For Sun LL Hc has value of:
    Hs[noon] = 41 29.6
    IC       =    -3.8
    dip      =    -4.8
    Ha[noon] = 41 21.0
    LL       =   +15.2
    Hc[noon] = 41 36.2

    From Air Almanac Sun is due south at 12:12:05 UTC. Time differene is 4:46:00 which corresponds to 71°30.0' W. Declination of Sun at this moment (16:58:05) is 6°56.6' S. From this one can calculate Lat as 41°27.2' N.

    So, the position in question is: 41°27.2' N, 71°30.0' W.

    Yours sincerely,
    Rafal O.

       
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