NavList:

I understand that in a number of lunar distance algorithms, the corner cosines computed (and displayed in Frank Reed's lunar distance solver) are the fractional part that the moon and other body's altitude corrections had on the final computed lunar arc.

By inspection of the cosine values, can you tell which correction was for the moon and which was the other body? Sometimes they are simply labeled A and B or alpha and beta.  Does the moon's HP suggest the larger cosine is it's correction? Are the cosine signs any help in identifying the body? In many cases, both are positive but sometimes they have opposite signs such as moon-body with same azimuth.

Popko