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Re: Star Identification
From: Bill B
Date: 2008 Jul 30, 04:59 -0400

> From: bruce hamilton 
>
> Another question. Last night, I could get a reading from a single star
> through a single whole in the clouds.  My star identification skills are
> still poor, and those circumstances were beyond me. Is there a quick and
> dirty way to take that single observation and find what star I was
> looking at using the observation, an Almanac a watch and calculator?

Perhaps not you definition of quick and dirty (or whole;-), but the D2102-D
star finder works very well.  Available from Celestaire
(, catalog #3501) and others.

Bill B.


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