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Re: Role of CN at sea, was Re: Averaging sights ...
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Oct 12, 19:06 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Oct 12, 19:06 -0300
Carl, this is a very interesting insight. It made the History of CelNav timeline: http://jimthompson.net/boating/CelestialNav/CelestNotes/CelestNavHistory.htm #Timeline Let's hope electrons and satellites are always available. Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus ----------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Navigation Mailing List on Behalf Of CarlZog > As the editor of Reed's Nautical Almanacs for North America and the > Caribbean, I was forced this year to make the decision to stop publishing > celestial data. In 2000, we eliminated the tables from our books, but > continued to offer them as a free separate volume to any Reed's reader who > asked for one. Of the tens of thousands of books we sell from Alaska to > Trinidad to Nova Scotia, our request for ephemerides slipped to about 150 > this year.
