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Re: Longitude by unequal altitudes - Brent
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2020 Jul 7, 08:08 -0700
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2020 Jul 7, 08:08 -0700
David, you should not be totally confused. The last term's numerator is clearly 620 seconds of arc, the altitude difference. In the denominator you have a constant of 2, times C which is given as 1.54 (seconds of arc)/(minutes of time)2, times (I-g) given as 77.5 minutes of time. Now 620 / (2·1.54·77.5) = 2.60 and the dimension becomes minutes of time, or 2m36s. I guess there is an explanation somewhere in Brent of the dimension of C as given in Table III.
Lars
