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Re: Yet again still on LOPs
From: Dov Kruger
Date: 2002 May 4, 11:23 -0400
From: Dov Kruger
Date: 2002 May 4, 11:23 -0400
> > > >Now I can foresee some objections to anyone (and especially firm >unbelievers) taking this on face value, so encourage you all to do the > The problem with this logic is that you are probably using additional information to supplement your reading. If you always shoot your position from the same spot, you "know" the answer and may keep fiddling with the sextant until you get a reading that "makes sense." For example, if you get a LOP that is in the water, I suspect you do it again. This is not a criticism, in fact, I suspect that given additional DR or other navigational information, a person can do a lot better than the underlying mathematics of celestail would allow. But it is worth knowing how confident one can be of the actual celestial observation, for those times when you cannot supplement the information, and it is worth knowing how much better your position can be established in combination with such additional information.