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Re: Timing noon.

Subject: Re: Timing noon.
From: Walter Guinon (wguinon@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 10:31:50 EDT

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When declination and Latitude are changing appreciably perhaps the most general
method of estimating the time of local noon is:
1) Take altitude measurements of the sun when you can, hopefully between
sunrise and sunset.
2) The clock time of noon is that which gives a least mean squares fit of this
altitude/time data to the computed altitude at the DR position.

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