The angle (at a particular location) between magnetic north and true north.
1A time-shot was successful, and observations were also taken for magnetic declination.
2Webb at once proceeded to take full magnetic declination, time and azimuth observations, Laseron recording for him.
3In 1851 Lament, a Scotchman at Munich, found a decennial period in the daily range of magnetic declination.
4Map-to-land navigation requires you to adjust for magnetic declination, which is fairly simple but beyond the scope of this tip.
5This can be approximately obtained by a good compass, and allowance made for the magnetic declination at your own place.
6Now, here is what we know with most certainty as to the magnetic declination of Paris at the epoch in question:
7While Murphy and Laseron went back two miles to recover them, Webb secured a magnetic declination and I took sun observations for time and azimuth.
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Translations for magnetic declination