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Re: dip, dip short, distance off with buildings, etc.
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jan 13, 02:58 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jan 13, 02:58 EST
Bill, in a PS, you wrote: "Sadly IMHO, does it matter a whit when GPS is the blind King? " GPS is VASTLY superior to any of this traditional navigation. It's so superior that it is hardly the same animal. But never mind that! We like traditional navigation. But if we're gonna "sell it" to other people, I think we need to do better than refer to chapter and verse in Bowditch as if it's Scripture. If someone interested in learning traditional navigation tries out Table 15 and gets a distance that's a couple of miles away from their known GPS position, it's hardly an endorsement of traditional methods! That's one reason why I think it's important to get a handle on the variability of refraction and its effect on these methods. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
