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Re: Distance off with Chicago buildings
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 16, 21:53 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Nov 16, 21:53 EST
Bill, you wrote: "Can you help me locate the spot you used on the beach? Was it between Indiana Harbor and the Gary works (chart distance of 20.7 sm to Sears and 21.4 sm to Hancock); or east of Gary, near the old Bethlehem/Burns Harbor Plant (approx. 24 sm)?" The latter. Near as I can pick it off from terraserver.com, the position is 41.621N, 87.253W. This is a little east of the "Marquette Beach Aquatorium and Aviation Museum". Octave Chanute flew gliders on the beach there back in the 1890s. Let me know if this position agrees reasonably well with your calculations. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars