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Re: 2 page table

Subject: Re: 2 page table
From: David Weilacher (daveweilacher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 17:05:11 EDT

More important might be how big the biggest errors are. This presuming your
boat will be that far out of whack at least some of the time.

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 16:01:41 -0400 Mitch Burrill <MBurrill@XXX.XXX>
wrote:

> I have done several calculations for several
> different years using Table 4 from HO 249 and
> the mean error is 0.5' for GHA and 0.1' for
> declination. I forgot who posted the pointer
> but thanks !
> Fun stuff !
>
> Mitch
>

Dave Weilacher
.US Coast Guard licensed captain
. #889968
.ASA certified sailing and celestial
. navigation instructor #990800
.IBM AS400 RPG contract programmer



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