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Re: The 57 Navigational Stars (and Zuben'ubi)
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Apr 21, 23:39 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Apr 21, 23:39 EDT
Herbert you wrote (re Polaris): "But why would one want to use a star of magnitude 2.1 in the first place?" I suppose nothing more than the fact that we can always find it. If I can see any stars of that magnitude at all, I can find Polaris. And everybody learns the trick. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars