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Re: Lunar refernce
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 11, 20:12 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Apr 11, 20:12 -0400
Dear George, > Alex gave an excellent summary about lunars, in which he wrote- It is a great honor to get such reference from such an expert. > What is the one book on lunars that he refers to? Bruce Stark, Tables for clearing the LD's, 45 EU listed on www.navastro.fr/en/index.html?p236.html (Sorry, I did not mean to violate the list policy prohibiting advertising. Disclaimer: I have never seen the book. I judge from the advertising and ocasional references on this list). > such as Chauvenet? Not very accessible, for a modern reader. I did not mean books from the past. I really enjoy Chauvenet, and recently bought one at a very affordable price on the Internet. Alex. P.S. I did not want to offend anyone with my jujement. (I could easily miss something good). I just listed what I know. Most of the things I know about Lunars I learned from this list. My favorite books on Cel Nav are one Russian book (which I recently copied from the lib of Congress:-) it does not address Lunars, and Chauvenet. And the web site I use to reduce my lunars is Frank's site. There are other excellent sites and web texts, all of them mentioned on this list, I suppose. A
