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Re: Nautical astronomy was different
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 20, 22:51 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Oct 20, 22:51 -0400
On Oct 20, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > They also have had experience with the modern Nautical Almanac format > which may give the erroneous impression that you must have exact > Greenwich Time to pull any data out of the almanac. That change in > format of the almanacs is only 60-70 years old --so convenient in > practical terms yet perhaps confusing from an educational standpoint. > > If you guys could expand on this point, I'd like that. Fred
