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Re: Can you work a Polaris problem just like any other star?
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Jan 4, 20:40 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Jan 4, 20:40 -0800
For the second time in a few days, I forgot an attachment. Grr.
So you take the star chart, turn it until it matches the sky that you see. Then you read off the number "RA" from the top or bottom of the chart. If you read it from the top, this happens to be identical to the local sidereal time. Then you enter the table below for the correction. Easy!
-FER
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