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Subject: Re: Yet again still on LOPs
From: Dov Kruger (dkruger@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 11:23:05 EDT
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>Now I can foresee some objections to anyone (and especially firm
>unbelievers) taking this on face value, so encourage you all to do the
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The problem with this logic is that you are probably using additional
information to supplement your reading. If you always shoot your
position from the same spot, you "know" the answer and may keep fiddling
with the sextant until you get a reading that "makes sense." For
example, if you get a LOP that is in the water, I suspect you do it
again. This is not a criticism, in fact, I suspect that given additional
DR or other navigational information, a person can do a lot better than
the underlying mathematics of celestail would allow. But it is worth
knowing how confident one can be of the actual celestial observation,
for those times when you cannot supplement the information, and it is
worth knowing how much better your position can be established in
combination with such additional information.
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