Is there an online version of the manual

[tarkalak]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: tarkalak

So I just went to visit the newly restored Sofian observatory last week and there is an astronomy hijack here.

Must be a coincidence. [:D]

Are you saying the observatory had a copy of the manual on their computer? [:)]

That observatory is really old. It was closed for the last few decades. And it is not suitable for anything but teaching because it is almost in the extended center of the city now.

I doubt they ever had a computer in it. May be someone brought a laptop.

So maybe only a hard copy of the manual. [:D]

About the manual, there is an online copy somewhere. It is not the full text, but it is a big chunk of it.

[Yaab]

Sophia = knowledge.

I guess they have the updated manual which includes celestial navigation info and moonlight levels for each day.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

The darkest sky I've ever seen was when we surfaced several hundred miles from the Bahamas for a surface transit (don't ask), and I spent a hour on the bridge. No running lights. A tiny red light on the bridge suitcase with the compass inside. Nothing else. I could not see my hand. The Milky Way was fully visible in a cloudless sky, and it was magnificent. I've never come close to seeing it in that detail anywhere else on earth.

Join the Navy. See the sky.

Agreed, Moose! Catwalk on the edge of the flight deck in the middle of the Atlantic, during "Darkened Ship" conditions aboard CV-66. The sky looks like you are actually IN space! [&o]