Re: SkyScout Errors

On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:50:11 -0500, giannoni
<casagiannoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

note :

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/WMM/data/wmm-D05.pdf

Yes, but it's just a model. As I noted, it's off by about a degree in my
area, and can be locally off by much more depending on mineral
concentrations and various manmade objects.

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