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Re: Computer generated Almanac
From: Jay Borseth
Date: 2003 Sep 5, 08:57 -0700
From: Jay Borseth
Date: 2003 Sep 5, 08:57 -0700
Pocket Stars (http://www.nomadelectronics.com) uses JPL data and USNO's Novas. There are some pointers to associated references at http://www.nomadelectronics.com/PocketPC/PocketStars/PocketStarsReferenc esBibliography.htm - Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Navigation Mailing List > [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM] On Behalf Of Vic > Fraenckel > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:37 AM > To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM > Subject: Computer generated Almanac > > > Loath as SOME users of this list are to introducing computers > into celestial navigation, I would like to find someone that > has used the "JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides" data to > actually produce a computer almanac. I would like to do so > but am not sure how to proceed. I am NOT interested in > getting the data via the many excellent Web based systems as > accessing the web is NOT practical while at sea. > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > TIA > > Vic > ________________________________________________________ > > Victor Fraenckel - The Windman vfraenc1@nycap.rr.com > KC2GUI > www.windsway.com > > Home of the WindReader Electronic > Theodolite > Read the WIND > > "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, > victory however long and hard the road may be; for without > victory there is no survival." > - Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965) > > Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world > is governed? -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620) to the young King > Gustavus Adolphus >