anyone heard of tradition of starting voyages on new moon

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Originally Posted by Hood

You are getting off your subject.

Poll please.

well i solved the paradox if instead you had you would have had your poll but sorry it wasnt bs:

i finally figure out how a primitive folk could have obtained longitude with the lunar distance method

the problem is that i can not transmit the sun and moon movement to the same dial when i travel changing longitude and of course it gave to the full moon seen by the traveller and at the same time new moon seen from greenwhich paradox

the reason for this paradox if that if i use the same dial for both sun and moon time im assuming they have a fixed proportion and this is not the case whn im travelling east in whcih their proportion appears to vary to me while travelling

so the key is to keep sun time in a normal dial

and keep moon time in a mirror dial like this:



so then when you travel east you keep both moon and sun time in each dial

if the moon its at six o clock in the mirror dial and the sun at 12 o clock in the normal dial but you see an angle between the sun and the moon of 0º or 0 hour it means you have changed 90º of longitude

well can i claim the prize by the royal navy now