What is the azimuth from triangulation station Balanacan to Baltazar?

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What is the azimuth from triangulation station Balanacan to Baltazar?

Azimuth is the clockwise angle from true north to the line pointing from the first station (Balanacan) to the second station (Baltazar). In triangulation work you find it from the stations’ coordinates by calculating the northing and easting differences: ΔN = N_Baltazar − N_Balanacan and ΔE = E_Baltazar − E_Balanacan. Then the azimuth is found with azimuth = arctan2(ΔE, ΔN), converted to degrees, minutes, and seconds, and adjusted to the 0–360° range. If both differences are positive, the direction lies between 0° and 90°, meaning north with a small eastward tilt. For this pair, the coordinate differences yield a small eastward component relative to north, giving an azimuth just over 9 degrees east of north. The exact value from the data is 9°12'37.000", which aligns with the line from Balanacan to Baltazar.

Azimuth is the clockwise angle from true north to the line pointing from the first station (Balanacan) to the second station (Baltazar). In triangulation work you find it from the stations’ coordinates by calculating the northing and easting differences: ΔN = N_Baltazar − N_Balanacan and ΔE = E_Baltazar − E_Balanacan. Then the azimuth is found with azimuth = arctan2(ΔE, ΔN), converted to degrees, minutes, and seconds, and adjusted to the 0–360° range. If both differences are positive, the direction lies between 0° and 90°, meaning north with a small eastward tilt.

For this pair, the coordinate differences yield a small eastward component relative to north, giving an azimuth just over 9 degrees east of north. The exact value from the data is 9°12'37.000", which aligns with the line from Balanacan to Baltazar.

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