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Re: Eclipses of Jupiter's moons: Did ships tend to carry the requisite equipment?
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Feb 17, 16:48 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Feb 17, 16:48 -0500
On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:35 PM, George Huxtable wrote: > As for modern predictions, as I remember the Astronomical Ephemeris > provides predictions of Jupiter satellite events, but only to the > nearest > minute. Both of the sites for which links were provided regarding predictions for Jovian satellites only provide predictions to the nearest minute. The French site has a few predictions for tenths of a minute, but most are only to the minute. I didn't see any occultations mentioned on the French site with timings to less than a minute. For reference the sites were: http://www.projectpluto.com/jevent.htm http://www.bdl.fr/ephem/ephesat/phenomenes/Jupiter/phenjup_eng.html
