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    Re: Slocum's lunars
    From: Frank Reed CT
    Date: 2003 Dec 13, 21:02 EST
    George Huxtable wrote:
    " I have checked by my pocket calculator that New Moon wll have been on 29th June (a crosscheck would be useful, please) "

    Aha. I've paid so little attention to the dates in SAATW that this had not occurred to me. By my calculations, I've got New Moon at about 0300 GMT on 30 June 1897, so yes, no lunars would have been possible for three or four days centered on that time.

    Frank E. Reed
    [X] Mystic, Connecticut
    [ ] Chicago, Illinois
       
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