[time-nuts] Thunderbolt & Lady Heather 48 hour precision survey

[Jim Lux]

Ah. The curse of longitude sign.  The heavens-above web site used to have an explanation of why there were apparently so many users in remote western China, and on the map of user locations there was a nice outline of the US  mirrored over China.



On Nov 27, 2010, at 9:01 AM, "Rob Kimberley" <rk at timing-consultants.com> wrote:

> Was about half a degree west as far as I can remember. The confusion
> occurred (I think - long time ago), because we had to enter a minus figure
> for east and a positive for west, and I got the sign wrong.
> 
> R
> 
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> 
> Bob Camp wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Of course you *do* have the excuse that you had to stop and think for a
> second as to weather it *was* east or west of Greenwich ...
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
> 
> 
> Is it not both?  It was a few degrees west, but a mere 359.5 degrees east.
> 
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