NavList:

Bill you wrote:
" I recall someone like own  FER mentioning something similar.  Of
course I will not state that  someone like FER stated that or recommended
that, as that might be construed  as an endorsement. <G>"

Indeed I have said that a little side error  can be a good thing. You have
quoted me correctly! ;-)

I think you're  joking here because I commented that I didn't recommend a
pair of constants for  Bowdich Table 15 after you made a post listing "Frank's
constants". I've been  thinking about writing all that up again since anomalous
dip is a topic of  interest to list members again. My strong sense from the
last run through was  that you didn't get my point, so I must have been unclear
on this topic  previously (the discussion did sprawl over several months and
one list outage).  I was not saying back then that there is a BETTER pair of
constants than the  ones in the explanation to Bowditch --I was saying that the
constants are not  constant. And furthermore that the variability in these
parameters is generally  dependent on a quantity which the navigator cannot
measure, namely, the lapse  rate in the lower layers of the atmosphere.

-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N  72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars 


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