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Re: Old style lunar
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 15:45 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 15:45 -0500
On Dec 10, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > > Fred H wrote: > "I believe one would need to check the almanac inaccuracies for each of > Thompson's lunars to confirm that they were a significant part of his > 1-degree discrepancies." > > Yep. That's no problem. > > And added: > "At this point, it does not appear that they account for much of the > variation." > > But how did you reach this conclusion, Fred? Have you looked at the > almanac inaccuracies for 1800? Fair point Frank. Most of your samples were in error in the range of 0.1' of arc. I was extrapolating from that. But it's speculation.