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Re: Lunar distances
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jan 25, 9:09 AM
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jan 25, 9:09 AM
Yes, I think you have the right audience in mind. I have a copy of Stark's book and it contains no theory. I bought it thinking it would explain lunars to me, but I learned nothing at all from it. It contains a two page preface, two pages on "Making the Observation", and five pages on "Using the tables" followed by 301 pages of tables. There is not a single equation in the book and the source of the tables is not explained or described at all. If you want to understand lunars, this book is not for you. Dan Allen -----Original Message----- I am also informed by Eric of Bruce Stark's "Tables for Clearing the Lunar Distance and Finding G.M.T. by Sextant Observation", and would be interested to hear listmembers' opinions about this book. However I have had to work on the basis of writing for members who have access to none of those works, and are new to lunars, but are familiar with the basics of ordinary astronavigation and the measurement of altitude by sextant. Would that pitch it about right? George Huxtable.
