Positional Astronomy - answer to exercise

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Exercise:
The Moon is at declination -14.
What will be its hour angle at moonrise
(when the top edge of the Moon first appears over the horizon),
at a latitude of +5620'?
At moonrise, the true altitude of the Moon is a = +07'
(allowing for semi-diameter, horizontal refraction and geocentric parallax).
Use the formula
cos(H) = { sin(a) - sin() sin() } / cos() cos()
where = +5620' and = -14.
This gives cos(H) = 0.38,
so H = 67.8 or 292.2
= 4h31m or 19h29m.
To decide which,
note that the Moon is to the east of the meridian,
so H = 19h29m.
(This is 8 minutes later than sunrise,
when the Sun is at the same declination.)

Back to "geocentric parallax".

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