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Re: What do "d" and "v" really stand for?
From: Greg R_
Date: 2008 Jun 19, 16:13 -0700
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 Wilsonwrote: > 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 > ____________________________________________________________ > Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval today > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---