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Re: celestial navigation on Gemini and Apollo flights
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2008 Sep 17, 01:30 +0300
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2008 Sep 17, 01:30 +0300
Collins was a very fast Magellan. As a member in this list without any practical navigation experience I just try to imagine how fast he had to do his observations. The duration of an orbit has probably been around 2 hours; in this case the sky objects were moving more than 10 times faster than in traditional navigation. Could it be that despite the high inaccuracy from refraction and extinction, the observation of a setting star was easier to do than an observation of a star somewhere in the sky? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
