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E for Clarke 1866 was Re: Silicon Sea : Leg 69
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2001 Apr 11, 01:48 EDT
From: Sam Chan
Date: 2001 Apr 11, 01:48 EDT
> On 10 Apr 2001, at 16:25, Sam Chan wrote: > [Snip previous] > > > > Using a new course of 298T, I get the following results using a method > > that account for the ellipsoid eccentricity: DR = 13d 21.8N, 59d 44.3W. I > > used a table of Latitude Parts to calculate the difference in latitude > > parts in place of the difference in latitude. The table is similar to the > > table of Meridional parts. The table of Latitude parts was generated using > > the eccentricity of WGS84. What method is used in your program? > > Currently set to Clarke of 1866 > Dan, What is e for the Clarke. I have spreadsheets set up to generate tables of Meridional Parts and Latitude Parts. I would like to see what this will do to the calculation. Sam
