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Re: Use of FER's Lunars Calculator [was : Lunar weather in Indiana]
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 2, 08:11 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Apr 2, 08:11 -0400
Dear Kermit, > I totally agree with you on this point. > It is possible that Frank might have developed an improved version with > (many) more stars. But I do not recall having read anything about this. He mentioned this possibility on the list many years ago. But then he aparenty decided to keep the format close to the real Nautical Almanac of the time when they published Lunars. (However he added more stars to the "Predicted Lunars" part. > Do you have the reference (if any) to some of your earlier > posts in which you commented Cook's Results Accuracy. Specially on this, see, for example, http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Point-Venus-May-1774-Eremenko-apr-2007-g2681 and the following messages. I can probably also find my own records. Alex.
