Two On A Big Ocean The Story of the First Circumnavigation
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Re: [Nml] H.O 211 glitch?


Subject: Re: [Nml] H.O 211 glitch?
From: Pierre Boucher (pboucher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Feb 27 1999 - 16:23:59 EST


Bill Murdoch wrote:

>I have a copy of Arthur A. Ageton, Manual of Celestial Navigation, 1961. In
>the preprinted forms for using the method, Admiral Ageton suffixes both G.H.A.
>and L.H.A. with W. Granted it is unnecessary, but it is his method.

Nothing wrong but redundant to label W GHA and/or LHA as they can't be
anything else!

>The book is interesting as it gives a method for reducing sights from not only
>the D.R. position as I learned in JN but also from an assumed position.

The methods you learned in JN will work just as well with an assumed position.

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