Dependability of Position Solutions in Celestial Sight-Run-Sight Cases Part 1

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The sight-run-sight case involves a series of two or more sights in which each sight is ‘run on’ to the time of the last sight. There are several known techniques to account for the run, which is for convenience assumed to be at a constant course. It is argued that only the GHA-Dec updating technique (GD-UT) will give a correct position solution, whereas the pre-electronic Intercept Method (IM)-based technique and its modern least-squares variant (LSQ) and the Altitude updating technique (A-UT), are proxy techniques that may yield significant deviations in position solution. GD-UT can be used in combination with a double-sight solution method for two sights and with LSQ for two or more sights. IM, LSQ and a geometric or algebraic double sight solution method applied to simultaneous double sights give identical results but the simultaneous sights case is generally an abstraction and strictly not applicable on a moving vessel.

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