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    Re: What do "d" and "v" really stand for?
    From: Greg R_
    Date: 2008 Jun 19, 16:13 -0700

    James:
    
    Thanks for the reply - I know what v and d are (probably anyone who's
    ever reduced celestial sights manually would/should know that), and I
    did read that same quote in the Nautical Almanac before I posted that
    question.
    
    But my question was regarding what exact *words* that they're
    abbreviations for - sorry if that wasn't clear in the context of my
    post.
    
    --
    GregR
    
    
    
    --- James N Wilson  wrote:
    
    > Greg:
    >
    > The Almanac definitions are: "The values of v on the daily pages are
    > the
    > excesses of the actual hourly motions over the adopted values." "The
    > values of d on the daily pages are the hourly differences of the
    > Dec."
    >
    > Both are in units of minutes of arc per hour.
    >
    > Jim Wilson
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