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Taking more sights for one star when triangle not equilateral
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 Feb 16, 20:00 +0000
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2019 Feb 16, 20:00 +0000
Thanks for the sights you shared especially Dave Pike. Suppose you have only three celestial bodies at rather unfavourable angles, ie a non- equilateral cocked hat. And suppose due to cloud cover these are your only choices. I have a way to calculate the variances that would make the ellipse of equal probability circular and so I was thinking in principle one could take more sights of some of the celestial bodies than the others, averaging so reducing the variance. How realistic a scenario is this and is there some literature on the idea? Bill Lionheart
