 | John Bradley Harbord - 1883 - 472 pages
...investigation. With Greenwich time by account, the distance may be rudely computed from the distances in the " Nautical Almanac ". Or without time or calculation,...shrewd guess of the probable amount of correction. We have now all the six elements required for the investigation. Let Moon's corrected altitude + moon's... | |
 | John Bradley Harbord - 1897 - 554 pages
...investigation. With Greenwich time by account, the distance may be roughly computed from the distances in the "Nautical Almanac." Or without time or calculation,...accustomed to lunar distances may form a shrewd guess o* the probable amount of correction. We have now all the six elements required for the investigation.... | |
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... these are known accurately. The last (the corrected distance between the Sun and the Moon) must be estimated. There is no difficulty in doing this with accuracy abundantly sufficient for this investigation. With Greenwich time by account, the distance... 