Roy, You are dead on. That is correct and USGS is wrong.
Navigators/Astromoners and Satlitte installers use Declination.
Hank
Roy Maull wrote:
>
> Well, I haven't put anything on the reflector since the "bugs". So,
> here
> goes something.
>
> Declination is the angle of a heavenly body with the earths horizon
> Variation is the offset of magnetic north to true north a some
> location
> Deviation is the amount of correction persuant to a particular
> compass at
> different points around the compass dial, it is not necessarily the same
> all the way around.
>
> So there, I have stuck my neck out again.. HI...
> Hurrah for recurring threads and all the various permutations there
> of!!!!!
>
> 73.. Roy N8YYS
> Keep West Virginia beautiful.. Grow ALUMINUM!!
>
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