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From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Jun 7, 10:06 -0700
I don't recall this being discussed in the past on Navllist but we have discussed the similar method of getting a star fix and then adjusting the assumed time to make a moon line pass through the star fix. This method will provide a longitude and GMT (which is better than nothing and may be good enough) but the objection was that the precision of the derived GMT/ longitude suffers due to observational errors and also due to the slow change in the position of the Moon.Chichester's method would suffer from some of these same problems and would lack the accuracy of the traditional Lunar but also may be "good enough." gl --- On Tue, 6/7/11, Antoine Couette <antoine.m.couette@club-internet.fr> wrote:
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