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Re: An azimuth nomogram: what's under the hood?
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2018 Mar 13, 12:17 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2018 Mar 13, 12:17 -0700
Tony,
Correct, these are cartesian (x, y) pairs just as you describe it. Note that I was missing a minus sign in my previous post that strictly should have read:
"The three scales can be produced by plotting the curves (0, sin d ), (-k cos L, cos2L) and (k cos Z, cos2Z) for some arbitrary k,"
In the diagram you provided it looks like k is about 1/4,
Regards,
Robin
