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Re: Lunars with Young's formula: always off by several minutes
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2018 Oct 31, 17:55 +0100
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2018 Oct 31, 17:55 +0100
Lunar distance calculator.xlsx
see: http://fer3.com/arc/sort2.aspx?subj=Lunar+distance+calculator.xlsx&author=&y=201401&y2=201912Haversines make sense mainly if you want to use tables.
Otherwise, if one use a spreadsheet, is easiest to code the formulas directly: The lunar distance method
https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/downloads Distancias lunares - Lunar distances
enjoy!
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