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Sights perpendicular to course
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Nov 6, 16:24 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Nov 6, 16:24 -0800
What would you call celestial sights taken as nearly as possible perpendicular to the current course, and also what would you call sights taken parallel to the current course? I'm just looking for appropriate adjectives here, so suggestions are welcome. If we do a running fix and one of the LOPs is parallel to the course made good then there's no need to advance the LOP since the advanced line is the same as the original. Running fixes are then trivial. Or is there a name for that??
-FER
