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Tom,
1. We are talking of Lunars. Nobody on Navlist will think of an
error 30 sec in longitude from a Lunar as an "upper edge".

2. My own comparison of Cook's Lunars with his true position,
when it is known, gives much smaller errors than mentioned in this movie.

In fact, Cook's accuracy (at the place I checked) is of the SAME order
of magnitude as most of the recent Lunar observations, that I know,
including this list members observations.

So I believe that there was no substantial
progress in lunar obsevrations since Cook (of course we have a more
accurate almanac, but I am only discussing observations now).

So the statement in the movie is surprising to me, and I want to see
the data that confirm it.

Alex.

> The interesting thing about this (besides the multiple ocular injuries) is
> that Cook was happy with his estimate of 30 min of error. Here on nav list
> one would think an error of 30 sec is at the upper edge.
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> Very nice video. I recommend an A.
>
> Tom Sult
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