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Old 08-02-2011, 02:43 PM
Rob_K
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Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep View Post
The discrepancies in the co-ords wouldn't make that much difference in finding the object would it? Not visually at low power, surely.
I think it does OBMY - just looking in Starry Night at a random star, the angular difference between JNow & J2000 was almost 7 arcminutes in RA direction (0.5m in co-ord RA). Run back fifty years further and you're well over a degree different.

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