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Subject: Re: the Quintant
From: George Huxtable (george@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 19:24:20 EDT
To my recent suggestion about the quintant-
>> It also gives a navigator a better chance of nulling-out anomalous dip
>> by measuring two apparent altitudes of a body: the altitude measured
>> up from the horizon below it, and the altitude measured up from the
>> opposite horizon. This would become possible for bodies up to 30 deg.
>> altitude.
Mike Wescott <wescott_mike@XXX.XXX> has asked, off-list-
>
>Did you mean to say "30 deg and up"?
And, of course, that is indeed what I should have said. Sorry about that,
and thanks to Mike.
George.
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