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From: Mike Boersma
Date: 2010 Jan 31, 19:31 -0800
Frank Reed wrote: "But in the real world, the observed times of sunrise and sunset are variable for a number of reasons and those variations will significantly diminish the accuracy of this approach to finding latitude."
What might these reasons be? Refraction? Clouds?
"It's certainly not a worthless method, but its accuracy is low."
This method does not appear to be more or less accurate than other no instrument or crude instrument methods of determining latitude.
I would be surprised if results by this method were better than 1/2d when attempted under real world conditions.
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