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Re: Out of Date Almanac
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 09:25 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2009 Dec 8, 09:25 -0800
And I ordered Geoffrey Koble's Long Term Almanac which will compliment old almanacs to keep me going until 2050. On Dec 8, 5:43�am, Greg Rudzinskiwrote: > Thanks Gary and Frank, > > I will be using my 2006 Nautical Almanac for 2010 Sun observations > with no corrections and be within .5 MOA (good enough). For stars the > plan is to photo copy the online Nautical Almanac for > 1/1/10,3/1/10,6/1/10,9/1/10 and use the star SHA and declinations plus > a 2.1 minute GHA aries correction which should get me within .5 MOA > (good enough). Looks like I'm out of luck for the Moon and Planets > though. Any ideas on how to compensate the Nautical Almanac Polaris > table ? > > Greg > > On Dec 7, 5:10�pm, Greg Rudzinski wrote: > > > Any opinions on using a Nautical Almanac that is four years out of > > date? I bring this up because there are old almanacs available on > > Amazon.com from $2 to $10. �New Nautical Almanacs have gotten > > expensive so my plan is to use a 2006 for the upcoming year 2010. -- NavList message boards: www.fer3.com/arc Or post by email to: NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList+@fer3.com