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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

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    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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