A vintage year

During a bit of a clear out I came across a Feb 1985 issue of the
Journal of the BAA - and my eye fell on a (good) review of a book
called ZX Spectrum Astronomy by one Maurice Gavin. Bet that brings
back a few memories and not just for Maurice.

As the clear out gets more profound I hope to find PET Astronomy and
then, maybe, Abacus Astronomy. Astronomy on the pocket calculator
never got buried too deep but is beginning to fall apart.

The BAA handbook for the same year also emerged. Data for the 33 solar
system Moons fit easily on a page. Try that for the 123 (??) moons
known today.

The ephemerides of the Galilean satellites take up nearly 8 double
column pages. Thank god for home computers on whose evolutionary
ladder the ZX is an essential rung.

Cheers

Martin

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Martin Frey
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Martin Frey wrote on 2/11/03 10:34 am:

As the clear out gets more profound I hope to find PET Astronomy and
then, maybe, Abacus Astronomy. Astronomy on the pocket calculator
never got buried too deep but is beginning to fall apart.

Does a Psion series 3a count?
An excellent little Astronomy prog; "Procyon 2.06c"
from J. Sussenbach, P. van Can.
But not sure if this is still active;
http://www.xs4all.nl/~psion/procyon.html

Probably the most extensive Astronomy program for the Series 3a/3c.
Yale Star Database.
Full Messier Coverage
Full NGC Coverage
Ephemeris
Reference Star DataBase
Constellation Lines
Lots of beautiful pictures and sounds

"Little" is relative, it nearly fills up the 2Mb Psion.
Has to be seen to be believed!

HTH, &B-) Ian
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