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Re: Position from crossing two circles : was [NAV-L] Reality check
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2006 Jun 15, 06:30 -0400
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2006 Jun 15, 06:30 -0400
Frank Reed wrote: >I want to advance my initial circle of position for Polaris and cross it with >the position line for Jupiter. How do I do that? > Point for point. Not without a computer, I hope. >Is my advanced circle of >position distorted? > > Yes. Initially, it becomes some kind of an egg. If you were to advance it exactly into the direction of Jupiter by the distance between Polaris and Jupiter it would become a 360 nm long, very thin figure eight. Herbert Prinz
