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Re: Venus mer-pass for Lat, Sun time sight for Lon.
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2020 Apr 11, 18:11 -0700
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2020 Apr 11, 18:11 -0700
I plot your Ho values, then fit a quadratic through them. Solving for the Ho's at 1215, I then use the two LOPs. I get 60d 11.2' N, 29d 56.3 E. The Venus line looks good to 0.5nm, but the sun line seems about 5 miles off. Certainly could be my error. I found Andres Ruiz' program very helpful.
At 1215, Sun 32d 20.49', Venus 54d 31.00'
