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Re: Latitude and longitude around noon
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2017 Mar 4, 16:11 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2017 Mar 4, 16:11 -0800
John,
For this LAN observation set the Sun will be within 0.1' of maximum altitude for two minutes of time before and after LAN (4 minutes of total hang time).
Greg Rudzinski
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2017 Mar 4, 15:40 -0800Greg & Lars,
I, too did equal altitude and drew ( several ) graphs and came to a time of LAN about 1668z but then looked again at the raw data. The time for the max Hs is over two minutes later at 1700:38. Does the sun really hang that long at noon.
You both have much more time looking through the sextant than I do but it just does not seem it would hang that long.
John H.
