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kenstoday at 6:29 PM1 replyview on HN

If you're flying in low latitudes, nearly half the stars that you want to use are going to have negative declination, so negative declinations are important. As for the hemisphere switching, this happened automatically.


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chiphtoday at 6:52 PM

Once in the Southern Hemisphere, they'll need to pick a new set of stars. So their declination would still be expressed negatively?

Or is it that they considered the need to navigate below the lower fourth of Argentina a distant possibility?

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