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    Re: Amplitudes
    From: Hewitt Schlereth
    Date: 2010 Jun 4, 11:10 -0400

    This is in the FWIW category:
    
    During the years I compensated compasses, I learned that small-boat
    sailors would become aware when their compasses were 10° out of whack.
    Some would catch on at 5°.
    
    To give small-boat sailors a rough and ready way to check their
    compasses, I developed a table of the sun's true bearing at dawn.
    
    What I did was peg declinations to their dates and apply the amplitude
    for that declination to produce the true bearing at sunrise on that
    date.
    
    True bearing at sunset is found by subtracting the sunrise bearing from 360°.
    
    I know that nobody uses a compass much any more, but perhaps a few
    dyed-in-the wool Luddites may find it of interest.  :-)
    
    Hewitt
    
    On 6/3/10, Greg Rudzinski  wrote:
    >
    >
    > Jeremy,
    >
    > I seem to remember that you are using an NC - 2 Tamaya navigational
    > calculator. If the LOP function on the NC -2 displays azimuths in degrees
    > and minutes (like the NC-77) then the navigator can be tricked into
    > misreading 000.55 on the display as half a degree instead of 000.92 degrees.
    > I have made this mistake many times. My Palm program displays azimuths in
    > degrees and tenths which I like better. This could be the source of your
    > amplitude /azimuth discrepancy.
    >
    > GRudzinski
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