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New Celestial Navigation Website

Subject: New Celestial Navigation Website
From: Mary Taylor (taylormg@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 19:00:37 EDT

Hello, listmembers. I have never posted before, but today I am writing
to ask for help with my new celestial navigation website, which will
be called celestialnavigation.net. Right now it is in a beta version
and can be found at http://64.177.0.9 It is not "open to the public"
yet and has a few bugs and a blank space or two (the paragraph on
the cross-staff is missing, for example). Also, books aren't linked
yet until I get approval from Amazon. And for some reason, there are
many days that I can't get Al Placette's great site at all, and other
days that it loads instantly.

Its purpose is to act as general hub - an annotated one, not just a list -
of the best celnav sites on the Internet. It grew out of my frustration in
trying to find websites when I first started looking. There were a number
of good ones, but they were deeply buried and there was no central
place to look.

Probably most of you, being so advanced and brilliant, will not need
it. It is really written for teachers, beginners, people who want to learn
more, etc.

If you are the author of a page I have included and for some reason
want to change the way you are linked, please write me off-list. I am
hoping no one will say, "Don't link to me at all!" My page is non-profit and
educational, and I believe it fills a gaping hole.

I have tried to keep it very fast loading. I can do some fancy stuff but I
haven't decided if it is a good idea to make it too grapich heavy. I think
there are some pages that without pictures are dull to look at, so I am
still looking for graphics. Since there are so many good tutorials with
heavy graphics, I am not really including any astronomical ones unless
I can find or make some small ones.

Please take a look and write to me. Remember it is not done and is a
work in progress. If you have ideas of pages or things to add let
me know. Thank you all.

Mary Taylor



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