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Ken M wrote:
"I briefly compared the values that Thompson recorded with the values from
the almanac"
For what it's worth, the lunar distances in the 1804 Nautical Almanac are
wrong by up to one minute of arc by my calculations. So if you're trying to
figure out where he "really was" based on the observations or if you're trying to
determine how good his observations were, you may want to get modern ephemeris
data, too.
Frank R
[ ] Mystic, Connecticut
[X] Chicago, Illinois
