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    Re: Out of Date Almanac
    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 Rudzinski  wrote:
    > 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.
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