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Re: Longitude by Time Sight...good enough at sea?
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Dec 16, 09:49 -0400
From: Richard B. Langley
Date: 2012 Dec 16, 09:49 -0400
It's only 3.25 pages long and two of those pages are taken up by almost full-page diagrams. -- Richard Langley Quoting Gary LaPook: > You can buy it here for thirty-five bucks. > > http://www.ion.org/search/view_abstract.cfm?jp=j&idno=1164 > > gl > > --- On Sat, 12/15/12, Dave Walden wrote: > > From: Dave Walden > Subject: [NavList] Re: Longitude by Time Sight...good enough at sea? > To: NavList@fer3.com > Date: Saturday, December 15, 2012, 11:30 AM > > Precomp Navigation is a 16 page "pamphlet" of tables and text.I > found one on ebay a while ago. > ***************************************** > Geoffrey, I have never been able to find a copy of Precomp Navigation. Do you > by any chance have a source?I have ordered Rust's Practical Tables > from Amazon. Do you happen to know if > his one page table is similar to Starpath's X Table. As I recall, the XT is a > table of natural > logs.Hewitt---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Richard B. Langley E-mail: lang@unb.ca | | Geodetic Research Laboratory Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/ | | Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: +1 506 453-5142 | | University of New Brunswick Fax: +1 506 453-4943 | | Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 | | Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.fredericton.ca/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------