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Ken Gebhart has said that the pdf of the 2015 edition of volume 1 of Pub.249 (known historically as "H.O. 249") should be available on the Celestaire web site "soon".

There is a link to a copy of this 2015 edition on my web site right now, but unfortunately since Ken has not yet authorized its release, it is behind a password barrier and presently only available to students of my recent "Intermediate Celestial Navigation" class. Be advised that the new edition uses "page images" (like scanned pages, but generated in code rather than by scanning a paper page) and therefore the file is around 170 megabytes. Of course this is the year 2013, and memory is no longer an issue.

-FER
PS: How many gigabytes can you find lying around on the floor in the US? I was thinking about this while driving the other day. People lose those USB "flash drives" all the time. Some casual conversations suggest that a typical printing/copy shop finds "several" every week. Figure 8 gigabytes as an average storage capacity. For a ballpark number, I would estimate one copy shop for every 10,000 people in the USA. Figuring 100 lost flash drives per shop, I get 24 million gigabytes of memory (24 petabytes) just lying around on the floor this year.

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