Re: (1944) More Comments

[ Good idea from T. L. Hayes about using only orbit periods to
  determine eclipses deleted]

If you're only interested in an occasional eclipse or two,
it's a great idea.  The impression I got from the original
letter (I don't save these for much more than a day so I
can't check) was that he wanted to know what the night sky
would look like given a certain time and place.  If you use
T. L. Hayes's simplification for this, you get the boring
(in my opinion) result of all the planets/moons/suns lined
up in one line in the sky.  I like to imagine the view at
Regina as something like the Saturn mosaic JPL released,
with a moon here and there.  I suppose you could fake it.

I've got the Saturn mosaic as a very well done digitized
bitmap (640x480x256) if anyone's interested.  You can even
pick out some of the background stars (I could almost swear
one group is the Pleiades...)
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John H. Kim
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