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Errors in Observed Altitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

J. P. G. Worlledge
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Extract

The calculation and publication of the errors in measured altitudes due to tilt of the sextant serve a useful purpose in impressing users more strongly with the need for care than does the unbacked advice to rock the sextant always given in the text-books, and also in indicating that carelessness carries greater penalties the greater the altitude. The work once done is done for ever, so we may as well get the sum right.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1949 , pp. 82 - 83
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1949

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