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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2005 Apr 2, 04:57 EST
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2005 Apr 2, 04:57 EST
Bill, you wrote:
"Trying my hand at Lunars. In the results on the Frank/Centennia
Software's
calculation screen, there is an angle given above "Corrected for
oblateness." I am unable to correlate that angle to anything I am aware of
at this point in my journey."
calculation screen, there is an angle given above "Corrected for
oblateness." I am unable to correlate that angle to anything I am aware of
at this point in my journey."
How did it go?
The unmarked angle you've noticed was there for debugging purposes at one
point. I decided to leave it in and unmarked just for fun --a little mystery.
It's nothing important, but would you like to try guessing? I'll
give you a hint: it's an angle that you need to calculate (well actually, only
it's cosine) as an intermediate number in direct triangle solutions for clearing
lunars.
