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Re: Technique question
From: Steven Wepster
Date: 2003 May 21, 17:42 +0200
From: Steven Wepster
Date: 2003 May 21, 17:42 +0200
My reply was -- Oops. Thank you Fred, for your explanation. I should have paid better attention. Steven >I sent this to Steven instead of the list, but thought it might be >relevant. > >Steven, > >That was the interesting part of Doug's lunars. Although they were >taken two hours apart, they were in opposite directions. However, the >error in time was -513 seconds for the first and -490 seconds for the >second, subtracting the known time from the lunar time. Thus there was >a systematic error of around 5' of arc, in this case a gap. In the >moon-Jupiter lunar, the moon was east of Jupiter, while for the >moon-Spica lunar, the moon was west of Spica. > >Fred > >
