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Re: Out of Date Almanac
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 13:33 -0400
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 13:33 -0400
Greg, are you aware of the Bowditch long-term almanac. It's Appendix H in my 1975 green-cover edition of Volume II. It's just a couple of pages. I seem to recall it was Appendix X in the blue-cover editions. -Hewitt On 12/8/09, Greg Rudzinskiwrote: > And I ordered Geoffrey Koble's Long Term Almanac which will compliment > old almanacs to keep me going until 2050. > > > On Dec 8, 5:43 am, Greg Rudzinski wrote: > > Thanks Gary and Frank, > > > > I will be using my 2006 Nautical Almanac for 2010 Sun observations > > with no corrections and be within .5 MOA (good enough). For stars the > > plan is to photo copy the online Nautical Almanac for > > 1/1/10,3/1/10,6/1/10,9/1/10 and use the star SHA and declinations plus > > a 2.1 minute GHA aries correction which should get me within .5 MOA > > (good enough). Looks like I'm out of luck for the Moon and Planets > > though. Any ideas on how to compensate the Nautical Almanac Polaris > > table ? > > > > Greg > > > > On Dec 7, 5:10 pm, Greg Rudzinski wrote: > > > > > Any opinions on using a Nautical Almanac that is four years out of > > > date? I bring this up because there are old almanacs available on > > > Amazon.com from $2 to $10. New Nautical Almanacs have gotten > > > expensive so my plan is to use a 2006 for the upcoming year 2010. > > -- > NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc > Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com > To , email NavList+@fer3.com -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com