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Re: Azimuth Formula Questions
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2005 Nov 1, 14:20 -0500
From: Bill Noyce
Date: 2005 Nov 1, 14:20 -0500
Doug Royer wrote: > I learned and then started to use HO-211 on a regular basis. 28 pages of > data covers just about everything to reduce sights. But that is all it is > capable of doing. It can't compute GC sailings etc I'm confused. HO-211 should be able to compute GC sailings, sight predictions, and star identification just as well as HO-229 (though just like sight reduction, it takes more steps). For GC sailings, you of course use longitude difference as the LHA, and 60*(90d-Hc) is the resulting distance. For star identification, the trick is to use observed azimuth as the LHA, and observed altitude as the declination; the resulting Hc and Z are then the star's declination and LHA, respectively. (I've probably fumbled this a bit, but doing this with HO211 is fundamentally the same as doing it with the tabular methods.) -- Bill