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Re: Nautical almanac questions
From: Adrian F
Date: 2024 Nov 20, 12:17 -0800
From: Adrian F
Date: 2024 Nov 20, 12:17 -0800
There is a reference to the co-operation on Astronomical Ephemerides during World War 2 in each of the two papers below, though both those references are much less detailed than the abstract in English of the Heidelberg book that Wolfgang Köberer and David Pike have highlighted.
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Adrian F
Paper in Popular Astronomy, "German Astronomy during the War" by Gerard P. Kuiper (1946), page 263
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1946PA.....54..263K/0000263.000.html
Paper from the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium, "The History of the British Nautical Almanac Office" by George A. Wilkins (1999), page 60