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← HistoryWhich limitation hinders accurate prayer time determination when using a medieval astrolabe for differing longitudes?
A)Inaccurate latitude grid alignment
B)Deformation of the mater plate
C)Planispheric projection distortion
D)Neglecting time zone correction✓
💡 Explanation
When determining prayer times via astrolabe across differing longitudes, neglecting the time zone differences causes inaccurate results, because local solar time varies with longitude, affecting sunrise/sunset calculations, and thus prayer times. Therefore failing to correct for longitude gives wrong times, rather than grid, deformation or projection which are related to different accuracy problems.
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