Celestial Navigation Help Needed

[dacust]

Originally Posted by DragonFlyer

Bill, hi
This reply comes 2 years late, but what the heck. I believe your problem comes from your altitude correction. The proper correction is 14.5 arc minutes, whereas you turned it into 14.66 degrees (a 60x error!).

I have written a celestial navigation book which is free to download. You can get "The Armchair Celestial Navigator" at my web site: Celestial Navigation

Rodger

Nice. I downloaded the book and the Excel spreadsheet.

But, off topic, I'm having the most fun reading the "designing_model_cargo_ships" guide from the miscellaneous section of your site. Is there any place that shows the actual competitions? Or photos of the ships the students built? I ask in here (instead of e-mailing you from your site) because I think some people in here might be interested. If this turns into a discussion, we should start another thread...

-dan

[MidLandOne]

Very generous of you DragonFlyer - a lot of effort went into that book. Thanks - goin' to look at Lunars (just out of interest tho' ).

John