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    Re: Unexpected USNO height correction precepts
    From: Paul Hirose
    Date: 2018 Sep 19, 15:26 -0700

    On 2018-09-19 8:01, I wrote:
    > Since we're talking about tenths of minutes, I think Antoine's example
    > should be worked both ways at .01' precision to (practically) eliminate
    > roundoff errors from the comparison.
    
    Taking my own advice, the starting data for the Venus observation are:
    
    1977 Mar 18 at 00:02:17.0 UT
    DR Position S 27°35.0’  E 144°53.7  Height of Eye 15’
    P = 1010 Mb T = +10°C
    Height observed in Sextant: 18°03.7’ Index Error 0.0’
    Nautical Almanac Dip Correction: -3.8’
    
    For a lower limb Venus observation Lunar4 says:
    
          3.79′ dip (calculated by Lunar4)
      17°59.91′ apparent lower limb altitude
          2.94′ refraction
         -0.42′ unrefracted semidiameter
      17°57.39′ unrefracted altitude of center
      17°57.67′ predicted altitude
      -0°00.28′ intercept
    
      59°49.46′ predicted azimuth
    +0m47.52s delta T
    
    The intercept is .28′ away, vs. .4 away per Antoine. I think most of the
    discrepancy is refraction, which Lunar4 calculates as 2.94′ vs. 3.03 per
    the Almanac formula. That puts the corrected altitude of Venus higher,
    and so the intercept is not so much "away".
    
    The above assumes a lower limb observation. I don't know how to
    calculate a center of light observation. Phase angle is 139, so Venus is
    a crescent.
    

       
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