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Re: Big fat sunspot and a solar eclipse
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2014 Oct 23, 17:00 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2014 Oct 23, 17:00 -0700
I said good bye to this partial eclipse with one final binocular lunar observed at the moment of extinguish. Judging by todays results I would say that astronomers from Newton's era should have been able to nail longitude on land by observing an eclipse with a telescope.
Greg Rudzinski