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Re: Navigation without dead reckoning
From: Thomas Kleemann
Date: 2007 Dec 23, 19:06 +0100
From: Thomas Kleemann
Date: 2007 Dec 23, 19:06 +0100
Sara and Dan schrieb: > I am new to this navlist and any help would be appreciated. > Welcome at NavList. > > My problem is that since I am not traveling in a straight line at a > constant speed it is not possable to calculate a > dead reckoning point. > St Hillaire is an iterative algorithm. So if you use any coordinates at just the right hemisphere you will get a fix nearer to your true position. Using this as your corrected D.R. and computing another iteration gives you again a better fix. > > My thought is that there ought to be a way to get accurate enough > coorinates by taking several noon sightings of the sun, graphing them > and picking the highest point and using this time as local apparent noon > to get longitude and using > the observed altitude to get latitude. If I take these coordinates and > use them as my dead reckoning position for later > readings I think that this would yeald fairly accurate results. > You are right here. Even tough it is not possible to get the exact time of the culmination by observation, it will provide you with coordinates accurate enough for a fairly precise D.R. Merry Chrismas, Thomas. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---