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Re: No Lunars Era
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 15:13 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Dec 6, 15:13 -0700
On 6 Dec 2004 at 15:45, Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > Yes. This is another argument to support what I am saying. I wonder if you could clarify just what it is that you are saying. I'm afraid I'm a bit confused. > Yes. Sure. I would like to see this. > But I would appreciate even more your own lunars. > (So that I could ask you all sort of questions, > like which sextant did you use, how you reduced them, > what corrections di you exactly take into account, and > how did the touching of Moon and Sun exactly look, > or etc.) OK, I'll post a fully worked lunar from my notebook (later) and then you can ask away. BTW, my sextant is a Tamaya ms-636 with a homemade scope (5x, 36mm, roof prism). > > I first learned lunars from Moore (1796) > > What is this? A book, a paper? A book. The New Practical Navigator by John Hamilton Moore. The copy in our library is the 13th edition, 1798 (not 1796 as I said above). It gives recipes like Norrie. Ken Muldrew.
