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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2025 Aug 20, 12:54 -0700
Bob Bossert, you asked:
"His voyages took multiple years. If he used the Nautical Almanac, how did he get the yearly editions?"
Really short answer: he got them in advance. During the era of multi-year voyages away from civilization (which was soon ending...), the Nautical Almanac was published several years ahead. Anyone know more details of the history? When did they ("they" could be multiple almanac offices, of course, yielding different answers) no longer publish the almanacs years ahead of the current date?
So... for a follow-up conversation, why don't we do that today? Where is today's "Nautical Almanac" for the year 2035, for example? Note that I publish data going out that far for my celestial navigation workshops. So why isn't the official Nautical Almanac for 2035 available for sale?
Frank Reed
