Brutkey

Trammell Hudson
@th@social.v.st

Fixed the LHA computation to use the DR longitude instead of the actual longitude and now the lines of position converge very close to the actual location!


Trammell Hudson
@th@social.v.st

Intercept success! The Lines of Positions from two Sun sights converge on the actual location (within a few nautical miles at this scale)

Trammell Hudson
@th@social.v.st

Controversial opinion: navigation is much easier with decimal math instead of minutes and seconds. I make far fewer mistakes with base ten than sixty, plus 0.01 is slightly smaller than 1/60. And besides 1' equals 1 nautical mile only at the equator so it's not really very useful on the rest of the planet.

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

@th@social.v.st

In Italy surveying operations are made with gradians: a right angle is 100 gradians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian

Matthew Dockrey
@attoparsec@clacks.link

@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org @th@social.v.st The secret third option!