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I'd be interested in looking at your form Mike. It might even compel me to
take another shot at this table. I first tackled them when I spent three
months in a remote camp on the north Yukon coast in 1990. I had the midnight
to 4AM watch and all I did was take star shots and reduce them with Admiral
Davies' tables. After my penance was over, I concluded that: 1) the tables
require too damn many steps and 2) a form would be helpful if one insists on
using them.  I never followed up on the latter.

As I said before: Admiral Davies was a very intelligent man but one has to
consider that not all of us are so well endowed.

cheers,

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Wescott 
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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: from a watcher


> Robert Eno  wrote:
> > I do not recommend relying on the sight reduction tables in the
> > Nautical Almanac. They are, in a word, difficult. I know because I
> > tried and every time I thought that I had it aced, I'd end up making
> > some really silly mistake. The tables are just too complex and require
> > too many steps which opens one up to all kinds of errors.
>
> That was my conclusion when I tried those tables the first few times. In
> the end I decided that they were in need of a form. I did a crude one
> and got my error rate down quite a bit. It needs a bit more work but
> if I find a few more round tuits I'll polish it up and publish it here.
>
>
> --
>         Mike Wescott
>         Wescott_Mike@EMC.COM
>

   

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