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Re: Old style lunar
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 16, 09:38 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 16, 09:38 -0500
Ken, You clarified most of my questions. But if Thompson's time is his local apparent time (that is the time elapsed from his local Sun culmination), then his star altitude is close to the correct value, and we still have no explanation why his Lunar was so much off. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Ken Muldrew wrote: > I get the same altitudes as well (calculating from log tables).