NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Captain Cook's Sep 07th, 1773 Lunar revisited
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Jul 21, 05:40 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Jul 21, 05:40 -0400
Paul, > This implies the altitudes were shot 3 or 4 minutes before the mid time > of the lunars. But I wonder, were the observers that dumb? They were not dumb. They knew what they were doing. A degree error in an altitude sight does not affect the lunar reduction. If there was one observer, it was natural to do the whole series of the lunars without interruption, and the altitude sights before or after that. Or one before and one after. After all, they did find their longitude to 5 miles accuracy, which is an excellent result. They were not dumb. Alex.
