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    Re: Lunars using Bennett
    From: Geoffrey Kolbe
    Date: 2008 Jul 04, 06:34 +0100

    Ken Muldrew wrote:
    
    >Even when the sun was in range (as it always was in every case that I've
    >seen in the journals of David Thompson and Peter Fidler - literally
    >hundreds of sun-moon lunars) they would calculate the sun's altitude for
    >clearing the lunar despite having measured it within a few minutes (or
    >tens of minutes) of taking the lunar.
    
    There is a very nice web page written by J. Gottfred on the navigation 
    methods David Thompson used.
    
    See 
    
    http://www.northwestjournal.ca/dtnav.html#Art%20VII.%20Recomputing%20Thompsons%20Data�%20Greenwich%20Apparent%20Time%20by%20Lunar%20Distance.%20By%20J.%20Gottfred.
    
    Gottfred goes through an actual Thompson lunar distance observation in 
    detail, reconstructing the methods that Thompson used.
    
    Geoffrey Kolbe 
    
    
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