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Re: Practical lunars in today's world
From: Peter Hakel
Date: 2016 Apr 5, 03:52 +0000

Geoffrey,

If any electronic gadget qualifies as a “calculator”, John Karl’s book “Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age” describes a procedure, which I put into Excel:

http://www.navigation-spreadsheets.com/lunar.html

Peter Hakel

From: Geoffrey Kolbe <NoReply_GeoffreyKolbe@fer3.com>
To: pmh099@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 6:48 AM
Subject: [NavList] Practical lunars in today's world

Given that we DO have reliable calculators today and so are not restricted to using log tables or slide rules, what is the most efficient method of finding time and longitude from a lunar distance using a calculator?

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