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The navigational triangle X or M?
From: Russell Sher
Date: 1999 May 10, 1:25 AM
From: Russell Sher
Date: 1999 May 10, 1:25 AM
Hi here is a small, (hopefully not too annoyingly technical) question -- I am writing a celestial nav.training manual and just want to get a fine point point correct; In the navigational triangle I always understood it to be PZX where It was celestial Pole, Zenith of observer and position of the body (X). According to Bowditch the body's position is M and X is the parallactic angle. Should the three corners be abbreviated PZM then and not PZX? regards Russell
