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Methods of Plotting and Reduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2010
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Hitherto it has been the practice to compute the altitude and azimuth of a celestial body either for a D.R. position or a chosen position in the vicinity of the D.R. position and to compare the computed altitude with the observed altitude, the difference (the intercept) being marked off along a line drawn in the direction of the computed azimuth from the position used for computing, either ‘from’ or ‘towards’ the object; a perpendicular drawn at the end of the intercept is the position line of Marcq. St. Hilaire.
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- Astronomical Navigation in the Air. A Discussion on Methods to Produce Speed and Accuracy
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- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1949
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* Tables for these corrections are given in A.N.T. and H.O. 249.