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From: Örjan Sandström
Date: 2012 Dec 23, 15:01 -0800
WOW, that would indeed be a useful compilation. if one adds a long term almanac for select stars and Aries it would be very useful indeed.
Weems LOP between 0 and 65° latitude would be ~35 pages (bit less with some rewriting of instructions)
Dreisonstok would be ~92 pages (bit less with some rewriting of instructions...)
Hanno Ix would be 1 page
no idea on Martelli and Hansen
I guess star part of LTA could be some version of Bowditch LTA, should be within reason for both HA and declination, and it would all fit on one page and include Dip, refraction and sun/Aries time-angle table, this last would reduce both Weems and Dreisonstok with few pages each (likely Hansen and Martelli would have few pages cut).
If we could persuade Geoffrey Kolbe to throw in his 2000-2050 almanac we would be even better placed for a total system and still manageable size and number of pages (around 200).
only thing lacking now to be totally independent would be long term lunar almanac and tables to solve lunar distance, sadly that dream is dead before it left ground.
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