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From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 02 2004 - 21:28:00 EST
Frank:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Frank Reed wrote:
> You wouldn't need occultations since you've got the radio
Yes. There are two separate questions here.
1. Sunsets/sinrise with a radio.
2. Occultations instead of the radio.
> could use sunrise/set to get LOPs accurate
> to 10 or 15 miles in typical cases.
That I would like to check. 10 or 15 miles does not seem so
bad. It's better than the conditions of the "Longitude Prize", is
not it?
> be able to measure five or ten degree altitudes
> with a card and get better
> LOPs than from sunrise/set, but that's just a hunch.
Better than 10-15 miles? Surprising.
Alex.
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