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Re: Silicon Sea: Leg 72
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 May 22, 18:56 EDT
From: Dan Hogan
Date: 2001 May 22, 18:56 EDT
WOW!! Did I make a GROSS mistake. Stop all your work on Leg 72. I get back with a completely re-done issue ASAP. On 22 May 2001, at 15:36, Michael Wescott wrote: > > The following morning the navigator see stars through breaks in the > > clouds. He takes the following sights. Same data as for DR. > > > > Body GMT/UT Hs > > > > UNKNOWN 05:20:00 13d 07.4' (Steering Compass Bearing 009.5d) > > Mars 05:21:11 50d 32.2' UNKNOWN 05:22:03 38d > > 50.1' (Steering Compass Bearing 050.7d) Vega 05:22:56 60d > > 55.6' Arcturus 05:23:33 42d 49.4' > > Unless I'm grossly mistaken (which happens much too often), 0520 UT is > 0120 ZT. Nowhere near twilight. Did you mean for these to be labeled ZT > rather than GMT/UT? > > -- > Mike Wescott > Wescott_Mike@XXX.XXX Dan Hogan dhhogan@XXX.XXX