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Re: My first observations with natural horizon
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Aug 12, 07:49 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Aug 12, 07:49 -0500
Dear Fred, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Fred Hebard wrote: > One factor > working in Alex' favor with regard to sun shots was that his general > course was north in northern waters, which facilitated sun observations > for much of the day. This was not so. Our itinerary was Dublin-Scilly Islands-Isle of White-Helgoland. So the course was first S Then E, and then mostly NE. (So the "general course" was E; except the first 2 days. Kiel is in the East of Dublin). The wind blew more or less from N most of the time. Alex.
