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el punto de fantasía and punto o situación

English translation: dead reckoning position

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Spanish term or phrase:el punto de fantasía and punto o situación
English translation:dead reckoning position
Entered by: Dennis Capstick

17:34 Mar 6, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Ships, Sailing, Maritime / nautical field
Spanish term or phrase: el punto de fantasía and punto o situación
Los datos que proporciona sobre la navegación en el Pacífico muestran que se siguió el método del punto o situación de escuadría, que se determinaba trazando el rumbo navegado desde la última posición y cortándolo con la latitud o altura del Polo, calculada a la hora de la meridiana solar o por la polar; ya vimos que la otra forma de situarse era el punto de fantasía, y altura, que se determinaba estimando la distancia navegada y cortándola con la latitud del lugar.
Dennis Capstick
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:25
dead reckoning position
Explanation:
punto de fantasía is an estimated calculation of position of a ship, dead reckoning seems to be the EN equivalent. Decent comparative explanations on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web.
punto o situación is position or situation/location
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David Roe (X)
Local time: 07:25
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3dead reckoning position
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Good ref.
Taña Dalglish

  

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dead reckoning position


Explanation:
punto de fantasía is an estimated calculation of position of a ship, dead reckoning seems to be the EN equivalent. Decent comparative explanations on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web.
punto o situación is position or situation/location


    Reference: http://https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navegaci%C3%B3n_por_e...
David Roe (X)
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Reference: Good ref.

Reference information:
Good reference.
http://www.fundacionhispania.org/revista_fundacion_hispania_... (see PDF page 84)
Una vez conocida la latitud, al ser desconocida la longitud para hallar la situación del buque o dicho de otro modo “Echar el punto”, había que emplear métodos de aproximación:
rumbo y distancia =“punto de fantasía”- rumbo y latitud observada =“ punto de escuadría; latitud y distancia = punto de fantasía y altura.

(see PDF page 89)
Once the latitude was known, the navigator would make use of dead-reckoning methods such as “eyeballing” – a combination of course and speed - latitude navigation method – a combination of course and latitude-; or a combination of latitude and speed, given that a longitude method for determining the position of a boat remained unknown.

Taña Dalglish
Jamaica
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PRO pts in category: 80
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