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Re: Old style lunar
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 21, 01:46 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 21, 01:46 -0500
> On 16 Dec 2004 at 10:01, Ken Muldrew wrote: > The error in Thompson's lunars from Nov. 26 seem to stem from a single > mistake that he made when going into his almanac to work his time sights > (or at least all his data can be explained by a single error; without any > record of his rough work, this must remain conjecture). What bothers me with this conjecture is that all his lunars you posted were pretty bad. So I was looking for some more general explanation of this than a single random error. Alex