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Re: Position from altitude and azimuth.
From: David Pike
Date: 2020 May 20, 12:43 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2020 May 20, 12:43 -0700
Bill Lionheart
You’ll have seen my last post. I wish I could have been wrong in the clever way you suggest. I’m afraid it was simpler than that. While I thought I was constructing ISO-Azimuths with a little 60 template, I was only drawing them from the previous meridian and not from the sub-stellar point. In fact, I ended up constructing something like a rhumb line, and it’s rhumb lines wot does spirals. Dave Walden’s lines of equal bearing diagram from Weems shone the light in the correct place. DaveP
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