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Subject: Umland's guide to celestial navigation.
From: George Huxtable (george@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 14:42:57 EDT
Thanks to Doug Royer for bringing to my attention (and the list's) chapter
7 of Henning Umland's "Guide to Celestial Navigation.
And thanks to Bill Arden for providing a web address
"www.celestialnavigation.net" which gives a pointer to that guide and much,
much, more. A real mine of information!
But I can now give an address from which you can download, free, the
complete guide.
This is http://home.t-online.de/home/h.umland/page2.htm
I've downloaded and printed it out (it's in pdf format). I haven't done
more than scan through it yet, but it's obviously very thorough and
well-explained. Umling doesn't shy away from using maths, glad to say.
Both Bruce Stark and I disagree with the thrust of Umland's lunar method in
chapter 7, as we have stated to this list, but otherwise I think it could
be a valuable resource for information about astro-nav. It will certainly
repay a detailed study.
George
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