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Re: Another Jack Aubrey navigation question
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Jul 22, 20:48 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2011 Jul 22, 20:48 +0100
At 20:36 21/07/2011, you wrote: >Geoffrey, > >A meridional passage of Antares would be >something like 15� altitude looking due south >from the Bay of Biscay. The northern coast of >Spain runs east west so a latitude derived from Antares gets the job done. It does indeed. Thanks Greg