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D. H. Sadler comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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The idea of an ‘Altitude-Azimuth’ almanac is not new though most effort (see this Journal, Vol. 1, 185, 1948; Vol. 2, 285, 1949) has been concerned with the Sun and planets rather than the stars. For the stars the simple problem is that observations are recorded in mean time (say G.M.T.) whereas the positions of the stars depend on sidereal time (L.H.A. Aries) given by: L.H.A. Aries = G.H.A. Aries + west longitude. A full account of star tables (and diagrams) using a mean-time argument (and thus avoiding using the Almanac to give G.H.A. Aries) is given in ‘The Genesis of the E. A.N.T.s’ (this Journal, Vol. 6, 333, 1953).

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