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Re: Lunar distance measurement in ideal conditions: attainable accuracy.
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jan 20, 16:35 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2013 Jan 20, 16:35 -0800
Bill Morris, you wrote:
"You could test your worn-teeth-near-zero hypothesis by taking, say 6 degrees on the arc as your zero and adjusting the mirrors accordingly. "
That's a really clever idea.
Of course, the set of lunars that Alex posted recently did not show the 0.3' offset that he has described so I don't quite understand what he's worried about. Unless those values had already been corrected for that fixed error.
-FER
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