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Captain Vancouver and the Lunar Distance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

N. W. Emmott
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Extract

The British Nautical Almanac was first published by Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, in 1766 for the year 1767 and the chief table in it was of lunar distances, which were tabulated at intervals of three hours to the nearest second of arc. On the bicentenary of its publication the theory and practice of lunar distance observation and reduction were reviewed in this Journal.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 1974 , pp. 490 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1974

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