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Subject: Re: [M]: 1 hour off
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Apr 19 16:01:34 1999

While you're here, how about checking out the Astronomy Book List ?

At 3:49 PM -0700 4/19/99, Chris Vedeler wrote:
>Mars is moving very fast against the background stars right now. 1 hour
>clock error would probably translate to a few arc minutes of movement which
>could be enough to miss it in a 9mm eyepiece...

It's not moving *that* fast. A quick simulation with Starry Night
shows it staying within a 15 arc minute field for nearly a whole day.

Bill Arnett
http://www.seds.org/billa/
"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search
out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch
the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of
ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

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