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    Re: Russian Star Globe
    From: Alexandre Eremenko
    Date: 2004 Sep 26, 22:28 -0500

    Dear Ken,
    The information you give is interesting:
    I wonder why Soviet Union produced them also with
    Latin names (in addition to Cyrillic).
    One conjecture was: for their satellites:
    those 3-d world navies whose officers got Russian
    training:-)
    
    But speaking seriously,
    I find it very convenient, much superior to the common Western
    device (the Rude Star Finder).
    
    Alex.
    
    On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Ken Gebhart wrote:
    
    > on 9/26/04 6:35 PM, Alexandre Eremenko at eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU wrote:
    >
    > > Soviet Star Globe
    > >
    > > Two days ago I received a Soviet star globe.
    > > I feel this device is rare in the West nowadays,
    
    > This made the Russian globe
    > far superior to the German one for esthetic reasons.
    > Although the globes have never been popular (or even known)
    > in the West, we
    > still get requests for them from Navies in Asia
    > (such as India, Thailand and
    > Malaysia).
    > Ken Gebhart
    
    
    

       
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