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Re: Old style lunar
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Dec 15, 13:21 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2004 Dec 15, 13:21 -0700
On 14 Dec 2004 at 16:31, Ken Muldrew wrote: > >From the 1800 almanac: > moon > Nov 26 midnight RA 15h15 dec 6 24 N SD 15'7" HP 55'30" > Nov 27 noon RA 20h47 dec 9 15 N SD 15'3" HP 55'15" This was a mistake. In the old almanacs the sun's right ascension is given in hours:minutes:seconds but the moon's RA is in degrees:minutes:seconds. Also in Thompson's annotations, the sun's RA is h:m:s while the moon's is ? ' ". Ken Muldrew.