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    Re: Navy MK 5 Octant Using Natural Horizon
    From: Alexandre Eremenko
    Date: 2012 May 1, 13:52 -0400

    Greg,
    
    > Don't get too excited over the 0.1' average intercept number.
    > I rounded all my readings to the nearest moa plus there are 
    > uncertainties 
    > of ± 1 second of time, ± 1 ft. height of eye, and ± 0.5' on index 
    > correction. The horizon was very sharp as was the Sun's lower limb.  It 
    > wouldn't take much to shift the 0.1' average intercept to 1.0' moa.
    
    Now I understand your procedure even less:-)
    How exactly you rounded.
    That's why I asked you for the row data.
    
    As a mathematician, I am very surprized how can one extract something
    with 0.1 accuracy from the data which are 10-20 times less accurate,
    no matter how manhy observations you make.
    
    If you don't want to type all numbers type few of them.
    For example:
    time1 sextantreading1, time2 sextantreading2, and so on.
    I mean "as you recorded them". Plus DR coordinates and IC and
    whatever corrections you applied.
    
    Alex.
    
    
    
    

       
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