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Gyro Error Calculation Using The Moon

This document provides instructions for determining gyro error using observations of the moon. It involves the following steps: 1. Install a bearing finder and take the sun bearing to obtain the gyro bearing. 2. Record the UTC time and coordinates from GPS. 3. Use nautical almanac tables to find the Greenwich hour angle, declination, and other data for the moon based on the date and time. Apply increments to calculate the corrected Greenwich hour angle. 4. Add or subtract the longitude to obtain the local hour angle. 5. Use sight reduction tables to find the azimuth and correct it, then compare to the gyro bearing to determine the gyro error.

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Gyro Error Calculation Using The Moon

This document provides instructions for determining gyro error using observations of the moon. It involves the following steps: 1. Install a bearing finder and take the sun bearing to obtain the gyro bearing. 2. Record the UTC time and coordinates from GPS. 3. Use nautical almanac tables to find the Greenwich hour angle, declination, and other data for the moon based on the date and time. Apply increments to calculate the corrected Greenwich hour angle. 4. Add or subtract the longitude to obtain the local hour angle. 5. Use sight reduction tables to find the azimuth and correct it, then compare to the gyro bearing to determine the gyro error.

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GYRO ERROR CORRECTION / OBJECT MOON

UTC
PSN

23h 59m 30s


LAT
30 18,4 N
LON 014 19,1 W

Date 07/10/2008
GB

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Install the bearing finder on the repeater.


Take sun bearing. We got the Gyro Bearing (GB).
In fast, write down the UTC (h:m:s) & co-ordinates from GPS.
From the NAUTICAL ALMANAC (YEAR) for the voyage date (written
in the up of left and right pages (p. 10-253)) find column MOON on
the right page in the page base.
By the argument HOUR & DATE (for example: 18h of 20/12/2007)
take Greenwich Hour Angle (GHA), Declination (Dec), & d, which
are placed in the page bottom.
For Example:
GHA : 68 26,3
Dec : 23 46,6 S
d
:
7,3
5. From the table Increments and corrections of the same manual (p.
ii-xxxi -yellow pages) in the upper part, find the minutes (in our case
59m) & in the same column find seconds (in our case 30s).
On the cross of these values in column SUN/PLANETS Take value INcr
(in our case INcr = 14 11,8). This value always should be added to
GHA:
(GHA + Incr) = GHAcor = 68 26,3 + 14 11,8 = 82 38,1
6. Then to the GHAcor add or delete a longitude. If longitude value is W,
then , else if value is E, then + . We got the Local Hour
Angle (LHA).
GHAcor + (+/- LON) = 82 38,1 14 19,1 = 68 19,0
7. In the book SIGHT REDUCTION TABLES (for our example VOL.2 040) find the latitude (e.g. LAT = 30). Search the Z (Azimuth) on
crossing of LHA & LAT on the Declination table (SAME or CONTRARY
name to LAT). Correcting by interpolation the Z.
If LHA < 180 then: 360 Zcor.
If LHA > 180 then: Z = Zcor
The difference between Z and GB (GB Z) will be gyro error.

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