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Re: Longitude by Time Sight...good enough at sea?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Dec 15, 11:28 +0000
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2012 Dec 15, 11:28 +0000
At 13:18 14/12/2012, Dave Walden wrote: >IF you want a SHORT table.... > > > >Combining this with the Sec/Cosec method (see for example, Precomp >Navigation, by Philip Van Horn Weems, 1969 - 18 pages), one has perhaps THE >shortest tabular method, ONE page! Have a look at the Starpath emergency navigation sheet. The tables amount to, perhaps, half a page. The rest of the page is examples, how to find latitude, latitude by Polaris......etc. Everyone should have one! Geoffrey
