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Re: Lunars and accuracy generally
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Jan 03, 01:47 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Jan 03, 01:47 -0500
Frank wrote: > Both these sets average to 32.6' just as one would expect... > Large Snip > By the way, from your analysis of your camera observations, which you > seem to trust more than your sextant observations (?), you gave the > apparent diameter of the Sun today as "32.66'". In fact, it was probably > about 0.1' smaller than that. But your sextant observations appear to be > spot on. A question from the "no-nothing" cheap seats :-) Your online almanac lists the Sun's SD as 16!27, yielding a diameter of 32!54. Does your SD calculation make any attempt at compensating for the irradiation fuzzy variable? If so, how? An aside to Greg: 0!06 from a highly-respected almanac with a small sextant sample--nice shooting! Bill B
