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I hope Geoffrey Kolbe's respose, with Bill's reply, show that the problems
that Bill raised in Navlist 2550 are now resolved..

But a minor matter cropped up in that mailing that worries me a bit.

Bill quoted some predicted Sun positions, that had come from Andres Ruiz'
website.

I will refer just to that first set of numbers from his mailing, as follows-

| Date:     1 May, 2007
| UT:       20:41:45
| Position: N40 W60
| Hc:       24d 00!2
| Az:       270.00
| LHA:      71d 09!5
| dec:      15d 09!5

I don't have a 2007 Nautical Almanac. But I have compared those numbers with
my own predictor, held on a pocket calculator, which differs slightly.

That gives a Sun position, at 20:41:45 GMT on 1 May 2007 of 15 deg 09.5' N,
exactly as Bill gave it, but a GHA of 131deg 09.8', and so with a long of
60deg W, a LHA of 71deg 09.8', just 0.3' more than the figure Bill stated.

That difference isn't a large one, but to me it's a bit of a worry,
depending on which of us is in error. I expect the Sun predictions of that
program to be generally well within a millidegree. One might expect
divergences of 0.1', as a result of rounding errors, but not more. If my
program is out by that amount I need to investigate why.

So I wonder if Bill will kindly recheck that figure, and ask anyone with a
current Nautical Amanac or computed equivalent, to provide a value for Sun
GHA at that moment, please.

George.

contact George Huxtable at george@huxtable.u-net.com
or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.


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