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    Re: Navigate by Skyline
    From: Lars Bergman
    Date: 2022 Aug 29, 13:21 -0700

    Being unable to indentify the Steinway Tower with certainty, I used the other three buildings and from Google Earth obtained the latitude and longitude of each one. By measurements with a ruler on the picture I determined the horizontal angles between them as:

    Empire State Building - 40.3' - Central Park Tower - 74.4' - 432 Park Tower.

    Thus you get two circles of position and by calculation find the intersection of those circles at 40°26.3' N, 73°59.0' W. This is identical to Frank's result.

    With a good paper chart and a station pointer you could skip all math and just set the angles in the station pointer and plot the result. 

    Lars

       
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