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Geoffrey K wrote:
"Well, I am not a historian. I think it would interesting and fun for some
members of this list to think about how the ancients might have gone about this
and then actually try and measure their relative longitudes using methods
developed individually or collectively."
There's really nothing to it. The process might make a nice web project for
some middle school students scattered around a hemisphere of the globe.
If you visit http://nighskylive.net , you will find photos of the whole sky
taken nearly simultaneously at different points scattered around the world. It
might be an interesting project for young astronomy students to attempt to
deduce the observatory location by looking at the zenith and meridian stars in
each image.
Frank R
[X] Mystic, Connecticut
[ ] Chicago, Illinois
