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Re: Problem with a sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 25, 11:43 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 25, 11:43 -0400
Ah, sorry, I forgot about those pages. Anyway, the USNO Astr. Alm. gives approx. one extra digit, personally I think that this extra digit is irrelevant, because I strongly believe in the Law of Large Numbers:-) but Bill always worries about rounding to 0'.1, saying that under some unfortunate circumstances the errors can accululate to 0'.2 and more:-) I also used small stars in the Orion belt in my previous message. Alex. On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Chuck Taylor wrote: > > --- Alexandre E Eremenko wrote: > > > (Nautical almanac does not have Castor; > > Oh but it does! It's not on the daily pages, but in a > later section, along with other stars that didn't make > the cutoff for inclusion in the daily pages. > > Chuck Taylor > 47d 56' N > 122d 11' W > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
