‘Longitude Without Time’

Extract

The Executive Secretary has referred to me two notes on this subject, one by M. S. Dixon and the other by Bruno Ortlepp. Although submitted independently, and at different times, they clearly relate not only to the. same technique, but also to the same set of observations.

Now much has been recently written on the determination of time, and thus of longitude, from observations of the Moon's altitude (for example, in this Journal, reference can be made to the notes by Francis Chichester, 19, 106, 1966; D. H. Sadler, 19, 107, 1966; J. J. Evans, 19, 392, 1966; and to the comments in the article by H.M. Nautical Almanac Office in 19, 133 and 1 $2, 1966) and it should be unnecessary toNrestate either the principle or the practical disadvantages of this method.