Next message: Jared Sherman: "Re: Computer generated Almanac"
> Anyone providing an online almanac would, I suggest, be ill-advised to
> recalculate, slavishly, all the detailed information in the NA. He
> would do
> better to use the interactive nature of the web to discover in which
> part-of-the-world it was intended to be used, and for what period; then
> download just a subset, only those bodies that would be usefully
> visible
> there over that period. The NA is laid out as it is, because it has to
> be
> all things to all seamen.
>
> George.
>
Well, if all your numbers came out the same as the NA, then how would
you tell that your's was _not_ a copy of theirs, given the same layout?
Likewise, if they came out differently, people would rightfully
question the accuracy of your work!
Fred
