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Thank you Geoffrey Kolbe for your translation.

It wasn't actually my idea that the parameters for evaluating the date
would have been sufficient for this sort of "navigation". The story
"only" triggered the thought that there also could be a navigational
exercise involved which might provide an additional argument. The
moment of Venus changing its movement from retrograde to normal in the
morning sky gives only a very coarse information on the global
location. I rather was wondering whether the 3 magi went out to
observe a different astronomical event, which appeared also around
this time and which was more related to the location in question, such
as e.g. one or more visible planets or an "important"star passing
behind the moon. The locations on the globe where certain occultations
can be seen are "bands". I just was wondering whether around this time
an occultation occurred where the area of Bethlehem was within such a
"band". Now I do not know whether the present astronomical programs
could calculate the moon's position about 2000 years ago with
sufficient precision for solving such problems with reasonable
accuracy.

Marcel

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