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    Lunar distance program for Windows: Lunar3
    From: Paul Hirose
    Date: 2013 Jun 13, 23:20 -0700

    I'm about 200 years late to the method of lunar distances party, but
    better late than never. My free Windows program Lunar3 to solve lunar
    distance observations - the installer and Web documentation - went
    online tonight:
    
    http://home.earthlink.net/~s543t-24dst/lunar3/index.html
    
    It's version 1.0.0.0 (literally) so expect a few problems. The name is
    Lunar3 because it's based on two other programs which were never
    released. The program itself performs well and I have made no bug fixes
    in more than a month. The Web pages could be written better. (I just
    noticed the first paragraph on the main page does not end with a period.
    Grrr.) But I've been working hard on that stuff for several days and I'm
    sick of looking at it.
    
    After what I've written on dip, there may be some surprise the program's
    dip correction uses the simple formula in the Nautical Almanac. I almost
    didn't include even that much! When the recent dip discussion began,
    Lunar3 was practically complete and in test. I did not want to add
    another feature. That stuff can go on forever unless you learn to say NO
    to yourself. But I found a way to add the simple correction with a few
    lines of code in safe places where I didn't have to worry about
    unintended side effects.
    
    The program was developed on my old XP machine. I can't guarantee it
    will install successfully in other Windows versions.
    
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