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Re: Tables for clearing the Lunar Distances from Bruce Stark
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Jul 30, 19:58 +0200
From: Jan Kalivoda
Date: 2003 Jul 30, 19:58 +0200
Fred, Of course, I cannot act as Bruce's speaker, but I suppose that your want is very easy to be fullfilled. The computation of reference distances for full hours according to the second Bruce's worksheet runs absolutely the same way as the computation of altitude for assumed or D.R. position in St.Hilaire intercept method. Only the difference of GHA's should be changed for LHA of the actual body and one declination for the assumed latitude. The result will be the calculated altitude instead of lunar distance. The declination and LHA would have to be interpolated to the exact time of observation of the body, what was superfluous in calculating reference lunar distances. Jan Kalivoda
