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Re: Lunar Distance Puzzle
From: UNK
Date: 2011 Aug 20, 02:27 +0000
From: UNK
Date: 2011 Aug 20, 02:27 +0000
Dave, You are going forward and backward on the question of whether refraction is essential to your solution or not. If you use Frank's online calculator, you are employing refraction. But in a previous message you claimed that "it is all parallax", no refraction needed. There is no point for me in analyzing or criticizing a method when I don''t know what it is based on. I have no further comment until this has been made sufficiently clear. In case your method does rely on differential refraction (which is my firm belief) , I already stated my opinion: It's not feasible. If it were, you could find local time much cheaper just by measuring star to star distances. Forget the moon and avoid having to worry about the lunar limb profile, librations, position angle, and so on. Herbert On 2011-08-20 01:36, Dave Walden wrote: > > It REALLY does work! > > Here's a case generated with Frank's online calculator.. [etc] >
