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Re: The 57 Navigational Stars (and Zuben'ubi)
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Apr 22, 01:59 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Apr 22, 01:59 EDT
Bill you wrote: "I agree with you conclusion, and that the daily almanac daily pages do not list Polaris." But interestingly the daily pages and the list of 57 nav stars did include Polaris from at least 1950-52. No doubt the almanac editors went through this same discussion and reasoned in part that it was rather for faint for the list. On the other hand, quite a few of the 57 stars are fainter than Polaris including five out of six of the stars added in 1953 when Polaris was deleted. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars