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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 Feb 20, 16:24 -0800
Herman
You can, of course, answer your question by exercising Frank's online calculator.
Here is one example
SETUP
DR Lat: 41° 22' N
DR Long: 71° 58' W
IC: 0
Temp:50°
Pres 29.80
HoE 12 feet
Body Sun
ALTITUDES
Body {leave blank}
Moon {leave blank}
LUNAR
Date: 14 Feb 2019
Time 0:0:0
Distance 102° 57.4' far
Ignore Oblateness
Ignore Refractional Flattening
RESULT
Error in Lunar 0'
Error in Longitude 00.6'
[4 seconds of time per arcminute of longitude yields 2.4 seconds of time error]
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change distance to 102° 58.4'
Error in Lunar 1'
Error in Longitude 30.1'
[4 seconds of time per arcminute of longitude yields 120.4 seconds of time error]
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change distance to 102° 56.4'
Error in Lunar -1'
Error in Longitude 29.0'
[4 seconds of time per arcminute of longitude yields 116 seconds of time error]
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