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Spheroidal Sailing and the Middle Latitude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

D. H. Sadler
D. H. Sadler
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(H.M. Nautical Almanac Office)
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The standard formulae, assuming a spherical Earth, for converting distance on a rhumb-line track into differences of latitude and longitude are:

where C is the course and α is known as the middle latitude. It is approximately the mean latitude when both points are on the same side of the equator; tables of the correction to be applied to the mean latitude to give the middle latitude are given in most collections of nautical tables.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1956, pp. 371 - 377
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1956

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