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Re: Timed Noon sights for position
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2004 Jan 23, 08:51 -0500
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2004 Jan 23, 08:51 -0500
> - Do you take just one sight, aiming for the time
> that you calculated for LAN?
>
> - Or do you track the sun's rise and try to record the
> time at which it reaches a maximum?
I suppose there's one more possibility...
- Do you track the sun's azimuth, and try to record the
time when it passes through 180 or 0 degrees true?
What kind of precision can be expected from this
technique at sea? How precisely is magnetic variation
known?
-- Bill
