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Compact Data for Navigators and Astronomers
From: Zvi Doron
Date: 2012 Mar 16, 14:09 -0000
From: Zvi Doron
Date: 2012 Mar 16, 14:09 -0000
Hello.
The UK Nautical Almanac Office produces a 96 page book called Compact Data
for Navigators and Astronomers which covers a 5 year period (2011-2015) and
provides constants with which the GHA and Declination of the Sun, Moon, planets
and stars (Aries presumably) can be calculated with a pocket calculator or a
slide rule. Unfortunately they package this with a piece of navigation software
called NavPac and the combined price is anywhere from £60-£72. They do not sell
the book with the tables on its own.
Does anyone know if there is a similar but cheaper paper only product made
by someone else, or alternatively if this compact data is available on the web
in some form? I am not talking about websites that calculate GHA and Dec for a
given date and time – just the compact data with which one can calculate them by
oneself.
