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Re: Classic Trig Log SR with Ageton Pub 211
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jul 23, 12:00 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jul 23, 12:00 -0700
Hewitt,
Hav Doniol is quicker with just a single table and no rules but for traditionalists lets give them Classic Trig Log by Ageton which I think is a good tabular complement to trig calculator sight reduction method.
Greg Rudzinski
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2015 Jul 23, 09:44 -0700Greg, kudos once again, though Doniol is a tough act to follow. :-)HewittPS For those of us who like old-timey ways of doing things, as part of Commonsense Celestial Navigation I made a 45-page sin/cos table that has the logs in the middle columns and corresponding natural functions on the flanks. This was my first stab at reducing sight reduction tables, which ended up twenty years later with a very compressed HO 229. H
