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From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2012 Oct 23, 08:48 -0700
John,
On CalSky scroll down to Map Center and you will see for Polaris year 1000 AD:
Declination +83* 48' 05.10" Apparent Coordinates
Clicking on the star chart doesn't match this for some reason.
[NavList] Re: historical star coordinates
From: John H
Date: 23 Oct 2012 06:43
Greg -
Alas, it looks like it doesn't change back that far. It still has Polaris at around 89 degrees declination. In 1000 AD I'm pretty sure it's something like 6 degrees off that.
John
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Greg Rudzinski <gregrudzinski---com> wrote:
John,
I went to CalSky and punched in 1000 AD for Deep - Sky then placed the cursor on the desired star to get RA and DEC. This might work for you.
http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi?
Greg Rudzinski
[NavList] historical star coordinates
From: John H
Date: 22 Oct 2012 19:21
Does anyone know of a location that gives you star coordinates back some distance in time? In particular I'm interested in 1000 AD, but also 1600 BC to present.
I suppose I could chug through a formula of the precession of the equinoxes, but I was hoping that there is a handy website where you punch in your date, and get decl. and RA for major stars.
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