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Re: Titanic's last stars
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2019 May 1, 16:27 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2019 May 1, 16:27 -0700
On 2019-05-01 15:16, Brad Morris wrote: > My answer, which cannot be verified, is zero. The navigation officers on > the Titanic did not use any stars, unless you count the Sun as a star. Pitman and Boxhall said otherwise. Relevant parts of their testimony are quoted and referenced in my original message from 2012: http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Titanics-last-stars-Hirose-mar-2012-g18375 The last paragraph, where I estimate the time and place of Lightoller's final round of stars, puts the observations right at the end of nautical twilight. That seems improbable, and is contradicted by Pitman: "We just took a set of them at sunset, or just as it was getting dusk, when the stars were visible."
