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Re: Question about Pub 249 combined Star and Planet sight reduction
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2000 Nov 18, 13:44 EST
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2000 Nov 18, 13:44 EST
Seems to me the least squares technique most in the spirit of HO 249 is to take a weighted, eyeball average of your star fix & planet fix. Or, if the precession & nutation correction is small compared to the scatter of your LOP intersections, forget about applying the correction & just eyeball average all LOPs. I'm not trying to be flippant -- just seems peculiar to reduce sights with HO 249 if you're concerned about a least squares fit. Why not use the least squares method in the back of the Almanac?
