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From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2025 Dec 8, 15:56 -0800
>Then there's StarPilot. It gives 12:15:12 according to one person, who
>also said, "Star Pilot, I've always thought, is the gold standard for
>lunars. They use an iterative approach (see Starpath.com).
That StarPilot time was about 3 minutes different from four other solutions, which agreed within a few seconds. Here's the word from David Burch at Starpath:
"I would not use StarPilot as a reference for Lunars. We included a lunar computation back in the day when no one else was doing it automatically, and there is a good chance we do not have the best solution.
I think it would be best to look for some other computed solution to be your standard.. or even the Stark Tables for a manual solution. I think there are numerous online solutions for lunars."
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Paul Hirose
sofajpl.com
