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Re: Lunar distances
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2002 Jan 25, 11:08 AM
From: Trevor Kenchington
Date: 2002 Jan 25, 11:08 AM
There is also the paper "A Modern View of Lunar Distances" published in the Journal of the Institute of Navigation in 1966. (It is pages 131 to 153 of volume 19). I copied it years ago but have never read it. However, I can confirm that it includes a technical explanation (peppered with equations), sufficient tables to allow for the clearing of lunar distances with the data from the Nautical Almanac of the late 1960s (which for all I know may have had data missing from more recent editions), and a worked example. Trevor Kenchington -- Trevor J. Kenchington PhD Gadus@iStar.ca Gadus Associates, Office(902) 889-9250 R.R.#1, Musquodoboit Harbour, Fax (902) 889-9251 Nova Scotia B0J 2L0, CANADA Home (902) 889-3555 Science Serving the Fisheries http://home.istar.ca/~gadus