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Re: Fix by Occultations
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2009 Mar 30, 15:12 -0700
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2009 Mar 30, 15:12 -0700
Four works provide a good explanation both of how to carry out the calculations, and how the values in the annual table of occulations in the NA are/were/could now be calculated: The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanace for the year 1902 A manual of spherical and practical astronomy, Chauvenet The mathematical theory of eclipses according to chauvenet's transformation of bessel's method, Buchanan Occultations from The computation of Ephemerides, a collection of articles by Joseph Morrison All four available via Google Books. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---