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Re: What's the right answer?
From: Joe Shields
Date: 1998 Sep 21, 14:20 EDT
From: Joe Shields
Date: 1998 Sep 21, 14:20 EDT
Or was the boat traveling in a northerly direction (assuming a Northern Hemisphere situation) and the sun was perceived to be setting due to the motion of the boat moving the observer away from the sun. -- Joe Shields ---Russell Sher <rsher@XXX.XXX> wrote: > > Let me guess - The sun was close to your zenith and the master was > (unknowngly) taking a back sight?? > > Russell > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jim Manzari [SMTP:manzari@XXX.XXX] > > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 12:54 PM > > To: Navigation > > Subject: [Nml] What's the right answer? > > > > The following message from Capt. P.Woinin of ANTWERP, Belgium was seen > > recently on the Marine-List. Thought some of the navigators on this > > list might like to comment on the correct answer: > > > > ---- > > > > Reverting to the story of officers taking sights with the captain, > > about the reverse story happened to me when I was 2nd mate, but in > > this case the master was wrong. > > > > We were on a rather fast ore carrier (16 knots on ballast) heading to > > Mauretania from the Schedlt. The captain used to take the (true) noon > > sighting of the sun with me, so we could get a good lattitude. At one > > stage, the master said something like: " Now we have it as the sun is > > coming down ", meaning the meridian passage was over and we got the > > right observation for the lattitude. I objected stating it was still > > two or three minutes too early, and we had to wait for the exact time > > to get the right height of the sun to calculate the lattitude, in > > spite of the fact that it was obviously reducing. > > > > Those who have a good experience of this kind of calculation will > > easily find out why I was right and the captain was wrong. Or has > > somebody any objection? > > > > ---- > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jim Manzari > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= > > =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: > > =-= > > =-= navigation > > =-= > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= > =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= > =-= navigation =-= > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @XXX.XXX =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= =-= TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send this message to majordomo@XXX.XXX: =-= =-= navigation =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=
