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Frank,
You wrote:
> I can't think of any way to make sense of the idea (green flash for
> longitude??), . . .
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This suggests that you've come to the point where your first inclination is
to see the time-longitude problem from the same perspective as the eighteenth
and early nineteenth century navigators. To my knowledge, no history of
navigation has yet been written by anyone who's at ease in that way of thinking. I
hope you'll consider writing such a history yourself.
Anyone hard wired in the twentieth century way of thinking will immediately
see that by noting the time of a Green Flash (should you be so lucky as to see
one) you'd have the makings of a longitude LOP. How accurate it would be is
another question.
Bruce
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