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Re: The 57 Navigational Stars (and Zuben'ubi)
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Apr 22, 00:35 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Apr 22, 00:35 -0500
Herbert wrote: > If the almanac gave GHA and Dec of Polaris, one could use it in the > regular way, if one really must, and forget the special procedures and > special tables consuming three pages in the almanac. But why would one > want to use a star of magnitude 2.1 in the first place? I agree with you conclusion, and that the daily almanac daily pages do not list Polaris. Please note that the star pages (pg. 273) does list Polaris's SHA (not GHA) and declination on a monthly basis. Bill