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I went to UW-Madison when Ghilani was a doctoral student, and Paul Wolf was my professor – and good friend.
I used the Hour Angle method a lot at the time since I did a lot of field surveying. I found the nested parentheses prone to causing blunders, so I developed both a program for my programmable Casio calculators and wrote a Pascal program for PCs (checked by both Paul and Chuck). The programs even averaged the shots and figured standard deviation, which I found to be typically 6 seconds of arc.
Time was easy – since I was a short wave addict, a WWV 9v time cube was just the ticket.
Probably not as fast in the field as Burt’s solar transit, but I was a mere student in the shadow of those two greats.
Now I’m a mere student in the shadow of lots more Greats – expanded horizons.
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