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Re: Lunar4.4. vs Frank's online calculator
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2023 May 5, 12:12 -0700
From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2023 May 5, 12:12 -0700
While we all acknowledge that sextant observations are limited to 0.1' in the very best cases, setting up software with much higher accuracy is not detrimental to Lunars as long as we remember all the essential points you indicate Frank, including instrument accuracy and Lunar limb shape effects and their magnitude.
Within our usual CelNav applications publishing software with overkill accuracy can do absolutely no harm but it can be - and is at times - a highly useful independent and reliable benchmark for the software developers we are part of.
Antoine M. Couëtte
