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Re: Dozier Formula, which quadrant
From: Nigel Gardner
Date: 2001 Nov 20, 3:40 PM
From: Nigel Gardner
Date: 2001 Nov 20, 3:40 PM
Harking back to days before all this electronic jazz. quartz watches, lap tops and goodness knows what we did not bother in the calculations about working out Z in 360 but just got the figure out and then expressed it in terms of the elevated pole and whether the body was East or West of you then say Zn was 234 and you were in the northern hemisphere and the body was just setting then the calcs would have given a figure for Z of 126 so it would be written (and plotted) as N126W. NG.
