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Re: venus
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2004 Oct 9, 11:30 -0500
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2004 Oct 9, 11:30 -0500
At 08:46 AM 10/9/04 -0500, you wrote: >Michael, >But what did you expect? >In general, the lunar distances method gives you >an error which is about 30 times your measurement error. >So if you measure the distance with 12"=0.2' error, >the error in your result (longitude) will be 6'. perhaps I should have been more specific, my observed moon - venus angle was consistently 5-7 minutes less than the one I calculated paying due regards for all corrections.
