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Re: Tables for clearing the Lunar Distances from Bruce Stark
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Jul 30, 19:05 EDT
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2003 Jul 30, 19:05 EDT
Fred, There probably won't be another edition of the Tables. I expect nearly everyone who would use them already has a copy. But I'd welcome an altitude-calculation work sheet and an extension of the "log Dec" table if you, or someone else, designed and published them. For the extension to the log Dec table, perhaps all you'd need would be values for the navigational stars outside the 29? 18' range of the regular table. That and at degrees and half degrees for latitude. This might fit on one sheet that could be pasted onto the last page of the log Dec table, as a fold out. I'd also welcome a pamphlet adjusting r&p and "Q" for nonstandard temperature and pressure. The one I did for Robert Eno was for cold weather only. A different design would be needed to take care of both high and low temperatures. Although I'd rather lunarians didn't trouble themselves with small stuff, there are situations where the extra corrections would be worthwhile. Bruce
