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Re: Lunar eclipses and other things
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Oct 27, 10:03 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Oct 27, 10:03 -0600
On 27 Oct 2004 at 12:04, Lisa Fiene wrote: > PS I know a man in Tasmania who builds workable Astrolabes, however this is > for the Northern Hemisphere only, so I've never been able to ever actually > use one. If you want one to play with, you can order a cardboard astrolabe (for either hemisphere) for about 22 US$ at the webpage: http://www.astrolabes.org/personal.htm That website also has a lot of information on the construction and use of the astrolabe (click on "return to the main astrolabe page" from the URL given above). Ken Muldrew.