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Re: Longitude by Lunar Occultation
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2019 Jan 8, 12:56 -0800
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2019 Jan 8, 12:56 -0800
Geoffrey,
I was aware of this website. It was also included in a fairly comprehensive list of occultation resources that Kermit posted a while ago (although I can't seem to find the link now). This site naturally focuses on asteroids, and occultations of brighter stars. To get a reasonable number of events the reality is you're going to be looking at fairly faint stars. Maybe the software available on the sight can produce a list local circumstances of stars down to magnitude 6.5 but I wasn't interesting in digging around in it. I also thought it was pretty unlikely to compute longitude and GMT given latitude and local mean time,
Regards,
Robin Stuart
