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Re: Titanic's last stars
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2019 May 2, 08:11 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2019 May 2, 08:11 -0700
Geoff,
Attached is an Arcturus and Polaris reduction. Time sight log tables would have been used in 1912. Shown is four place natural sin and cos as per pocket calculator. The Nautical Almanac 1912 polaris correction to add has been estimated to get the correct latitude.
Greg Rudzinski