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Re: When did "time sights" fade away?
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2011 Jul 21, 15:32 +0200
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2011 Jul 21, 15:32 +0200
Herry:
“However, the tangent produced by employing by
a single Time Sight position and an LOP perpendicular to the azimuth, for all
practical purposes, is identical to the intercept tangent produced by Marc St.
Hillaire.
I have not independently verified the foregoing, …”
Yes.
I have done several examples.
Here is the CoP, the MSH LoP and the Sumner LoP:
Regards,
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Andrés Ruiz
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