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Jan,

Thank you for your very lucid exposition of the innovations
incorporated into Bruce Stark's Tables.  It was a pleasure to read.

I agree that Bruce's tables make lunars accessible.

The one other thing I would like to see added to the Tables would be a
worksheet for using them to reduce standard timed altitude sights.
That way, one set of tables could be carried on board to perform both
functions.

I offer this suggestion with some trepidation, as it would certainly
make me groan if I were Bruce, especially considering the reduced need
for tables in these days of calculators, computers and GPS.

Fred Hebard


On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 07:51 US/Eastern, Jan Kalivoda wrote:

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> After Bruce Stark disclosed the principle of his work for Nav-L during
> the last two months, every navigator (fondling the GPS in his pocket)
> can revert to the sea history in his practice very easy. And he can be
> sure that with these Tables, the history of Lunar Distances is
> consummated now and the long line of rigorous methods for clearing
> them ends successfully - only in our days.
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> Jan Kalivoda

   

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