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Re: Bombers over Danger Island! A celestial tale
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Sep 13, 03:22 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Sep 13, 03:22 -0700
In struggling with whether Regulus was good for lunars at 06.38UT on 4th March 1942, I’d forgotten one thing and failed to notice another. I’d forgotten that Regulus is very close to the Ecliptic and failed to notice that at the date and time selected the Ecliptic was close to vertical. It’s also very bright, so not withstanding refraction, it would have been OK for a lunar. DaveP
