(11-08-2018, 04:35 PM)albyreto Wrote: Hello!!!
During my home exercises to keep me trained I have encountered some problems in which the result of the value of azimuth is different if calculated with the Eulero's formula or if calculated with the tables ABC
How is it possible?
Can you help me!
One of these act like this:
Dec -14° 39.5'
hc 21° 14.6'
Lat 40N
LHA 315° 5,1'
With the formula:
Z=88°
With ABC tables
Z=133°
This is what I get:
Using 249: Z = 133
Using formula:
Z = ACOS ((SIN -14.658 - (SIN 40 X SIN 20.35)) / (COS 40 X COS 20.35)) = 131.57 (close enough)
Using your original HC I get Z = 132.89
It seems my HC is slightly different than yours. In the 249 vol 3, using LHA = 315, DEC = 15, APLAT = 40 contrary, I found HC = 20:54, d = -49, Z = 133.
Using table 5 I found 'd' correction to be -33... So 20:54 - 00:33 = 20:21 which is eq to 20.35
good luck shipmate
joe