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Frank,

You have placed your contestant on an island at about 37 South (from the
declinations of his zenith stars), which is a bit of a special case: He
can only be on Tristan Da Cunha, St.Paul, one of the small islands
off the North Island of New Zealand or just perhaps the little one off
Coronel, Chile. Even the roughest of estimates on longitude (to the
nearest 90 degrees for all but Coronel/Tristan!) could resolve which of
those four. I don't have the 2004 almanac so I can't attempt to estimate
GMT of sunset and hence longitude but I doubt that the required
precision would call for properly clearing the lunar.

If you had put your contestant on a raft at sea, the challenge would
have been a good deal more interesting!


Trevor Kenchington



You wrote:

 > Can you figure out where you are using nothing but a few pages from the
 > Almanac? How accurately? Take a look at my "lunars game" here:
 > www.clockwk.com/lungame.html and see if you can win.


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