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Re: Lunars: Jupiter above the Moon
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jul 7, 02:59 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Jul 7, 02:59 -0500
Bill, > I was playing with sun/moon lunars late Wednesday as well (approx 115d > observed separation at the time, > but fighting trees trying to sight both, so > only 3 poor shots, -.06 results. You surely inserted an extra zero: the result of .06' approx .1' I would not call poor:-) > How did you calculate and apply the flattening of the sun? Frank's online calculator has everything, but all precise formulas for the Lunars are in Chauvenet. I believe that George's online opus also contains this. Two questions to everyone: Is Chauvenet available on line? Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
