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Subject: [Nml] Lunars
JMason@XXX.XXX
Date: Tue Feb 16 1999 - 11:23:42 EST
Has anyone ever seen a reference to an actual procedure (book, calculator, or
computer program) for the celestial navigation solution for longitude called
"luners"?
My understanding is one starts with the time at which one or more of the
navigation stars is occulted by the moon, and traditionally performs a massive
(hours to solve without calculators) spherical trigonometry solution which
yields position. But how does one do it? Even Bowditch is silent.
There is another solution using the moons of Jupiter, but I don't think this
is the "luners" used by master mariners in the last century.
John Mason
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