Thread: One minute of Longitude--at your Latitude?
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Default One minute of Longitude--at your Latitude?
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Bart Senior wrote:
How long is a minute of Longitude--at your Latitude?

And what is the formula to calcuate it?

OZ, although your posts are mostly negative, for you it
would not be a negative number.
..

There are 1440 minutes to a day, regardless of what latitude or
longitude you live in. Divide that by 360 (degrees) you get 4 (mins).
Every degree of longitude you have 4 mins.

And, sorry, I wasn't keen to butt in on your conversation. But I am a
dinghy sailor and was generally browsing when I came across this post.
I sail the Enterprise and Laser class. I and my wife also co-own a
couple of 27 footers with a bunch of friends. We live in Chennai
(formerly Madras) on the East Coast of India.

Any sailor coming to this part of the world will be more than welcome
here!

Rgds
Ravi

Wow! I think you're our very first sailor from India! We've had some
Romanian and Polish guys here once...stay for awhole so we get your
perspective on sailing in your waters...you can ignore all our American
political blabber....