Greetings,
I tried to to use intercept method in solving some problems from a book and found out that despite the fact that Polaris is one of the most easily recognizable stars in the Northern Hemisphere Nautical Almanach of 2005 and earlier versions did not have SHA for it. Now, 2017 they do. So, my question is, why Polaris wasn't included in the list of observable stars in Pub.249 and NAutical Almanacs and is it any way to guess it SHA without jeopardasing the accuracy of plotting too much?
I wanted to place the question as the new one but am not not sure how to do it. So I just place it in Sight Reduction forum.
I tried to to use intercept method in solving some problems from a book and found out that despite the fact that Polaris is one of the most easily recognizable stars in the Northern Hemisphere Nautical Almanach of 2005 and earlier versions did not have SHA for it. Now, 2017 they do. So, my question is, why Polaris wasn't included in the list of observable stars in Pub.249 and NAutical Almanacs and is it any way to guess it SHA without jeopardasing the accuracy of plotting too much?
I wanted to place the question as the new one but am not not sure how to do it. So I just place it in Sight Reduction forum.