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Parallactic Retardation - is it a virus?
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2004 Jan 28, 15:36 -0500
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2004 Jan 28, 15:36 -0500
By the way, George (& Arthur), Henning Umland's site also has
a nice explanation of lunar distances in Chapter 7, which
concludes with this statement (where D[Lapp] is the apparent
distance):
The standard deviation of a time value obtained by lunar
distance is inversely proportional to the rate of change of
D[Lapp].... Finally, it should be mentioned that the rate of
change of D[Lapp] (not D!) is also affected by atmospheric
refraction and, even more, by the parallax of the moon [14].
[14] The Lunar Distance Page, http://www.ld-DEADLINK-com
-- Bill
