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Re: Making an impact with hav-Doniol
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 13:11 -0500
From: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 13:11 -0500
Actually, the Commercial Edition is as official as you can get. It is printed from a file provided by HMNAO, and the daily pages are copyrighted by them.
On Jun 21, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Peter Hakel wrote:
Greg, Hanno,
I agree with others that it would be great if you succeeded in getting your method included in an “official” publication. I suppose I am among those who went through the current sight reduction tables in that almanac exactly once, got the right answer (eventually…), and then never used them again. Well done!
Peter Hakel
From: Greg Rudzinski <NoReply_Rudzinski@fer3.com>
To: pmh099---.com
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:01 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Making an impact with hav-Doniol
Ken,A 5 place haversine table to the minute of arc would be 9 pages and half that for 4 places. The Ix graph should be a single page fold out if possible. Instructions and examples should fit on a single page. Total max pages would be no more than 11 without trying to go small.Greg RudzinskiFrom: Ken Gebhart
Date: 2015 Jun 20, 23:30 -0500Sorry to say I have not been following the details of the Hav-Doniol sight reduction, but another route to publishing it would be the Commercial Edition of the Nautical Almanac. I don't have hard numbers, but I think this outsells the British and US versions by a substantial margin world wide. This can easily be added to the edition if it doesn't require too many pages. If someone will tell me the number of pages required, I will investigate this. Some of the older members may recall we used to add the S-Tables to the Almanac just to make it more competitive to the US version. It would be too late to get into the 2016 Edition as it goes to press now.
