NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: What do "d" and "v" really stand for?
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2008 Jun 19, 14:02 -0700
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc
To post, email NavList@fer3.com
To , email NavList-@fer3.com
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
____________________________________________________________
From: James N Wilson
Date: 2008 Jun 19, 14:02 -0700
Greg:
The Almanac definitions are: "The values of v on the daily pages
are the excesses of the actual hourly motions over the adopted values." "The
values of d on the daily pages are the hourly differences of the
Dec."
Both are in units of minutes of arc per hour.
Jim Wilson
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc
To post, email NavList@fer3.com
To , email NavList-@fer3.com
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
____________________________________________________________