Predictor stabilisation of reduction formulae for observations of heavily-damped simple harmonic motions

The paper summarises attempts which have been made to derive general, simple and stable formulae of adequate precision for the reduction of observations to the extremal positions of oscillations which are simple harmonic or near-simple harmonic. A fallacy in the thirty-five year old Schuler Mean is pointed out and general formulae are offered for the reduction of observations for any constant damping, within the range0<f≤1.