Here's another moon observation at 7:57pm NZDST Monday 18 October 2004, other details as before:

Combination of eyeballing and handspan, fist and finger measurements:
48 degrees elevation
275 degrees azimuth

SkyMap figures:
48 degrees 14 minutes 9 seconds elevation
273 degrees 46 minutes 5 seconds azimuth

Grant seems to have qualms about me using such measurements. I'd say that when they prove to be well within the deviation he claims and within 1 degree 14 minutes of the predicted figure, then there isn't much of a problem.

It is my opinion that Grant isn't at all serious about the claims he has made on this thread -- he likes the attention and is just having "fun" spouting a lot of nonsense. Let's face it, if he was sincere he would give far better answers to the many questions he has been asked and he wouldn't have completely ignored some of them as he has.