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By the Nautical Almanac, it appears that the Greenwich mean time answering to this distance, must be between 9 P.M. and midnight-the difference of distance answering to this interval of 3

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The difference between the prop. log. at 9 and midnight being 0, the correction of 2nd differences is nothing.

Mr. Baily's formula for a lunar observation for longitude is as follows:

x the true lunar distance required,

* The interval of time past 9 P.M. might of course have been found by a common proportion, without the aid of prop. logarithms.

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The following example will also show the method of working out a lunar observation, by Dr. Young's formula, all the terms of which are cosines :—

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2 cos 4 (M H + SK + MS) cos } (MH+ SK – MS) cos M'H cos S'K

-cos (M'H+ S'K).

MS 95 50 53

cos MH cos SK

MH = 35 45 4 ar. comp. cos 0·090678

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The same example, by Mr. Riddle's first method, which will be found in his " Navigation," gives 95° 44′ 29′′ for the corrected

lunar distance.

By Mrs. Taylor's method, which requires the use of her "Tables," the true distance is obtained as follows:

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The apparent altitudes and distance are first obtained from those observed, by correcting them for semidiameter and dip if necessary. Then in Table 1 find the log of the corrections for the altitudes on account of the moon's parallax.

Trom Table 2 take the logs of the effect of the moon's horizontal parallax upon the distance.

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