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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2023 Jun 28, 17:06 -0700
Herman Dekker, you wrote:
"1e Quick and Dirty
Typed Polaris and both Venus sights in the TI-89 Starpilot
Fix: 34°58,6' N -067°07.6'W
2e Franks compact almanacs from the "Advanced Celestial" workshop and Handheld Calculator TI-30X pro
Fix: 34°57,7'N -067°06,7W
This calculation is attached to know how the values where derived."
That's great. I'm glad you did it this way. It's good to see the results from an independent product that's doing all the detail (Starpilot is strong on details, especially remarkable for a product that was essentially finished by the mid-1990s). And they match rather well. Was there really a one minute difference in the longitude?
Thank you also for including your hand-written computations. It's nice to see the work on paper [ok, it's virtual paper, after a long trip through the internet! but there was paper in there somewhere ;-) ].
Frank Reed
