The Astrolabe World Ephemeris: 2001-2050 at Midnight

Rating:
Summary: question for previous reviewer
Review: How can a reader who wrote in May, 2000, characterize an ephemeris which does not commence until January of 2001 as being "accurate"? The only way we can know such a book to be "accurate" is to test it vis-a-vis the skies over a period of time. Maybe by 2040 we'll be able to toast with champagne, and say, "Aye, but it's been an accurate ephemeris." I trust readers will forgive me for writing a review without having yet seen the book, and understand that I gave it five stars because I like the number five, and in a spirit of optimistic anticipation of what I hope will be half a century of accurate astronomical information. Besides, one *uses* an ephemeris; I never heard of anyone reading one.

Rating:
Summary: question for previous reviewer
Review: How can a reader who wrote in May, 2000, characterize an ephemeris which does not commence until January of 2001 as being "accurate"? The only way we can know such a book to be "accurate" is to test it vis-a-vis the skies over a period of time. Maybe by 2040 we'll be able to toast with champagne, and say, "Aye, but it's been an accurate ephemeris." I trust readers will forgive me for writing a review without having yet seen the book, and understand that I gave it five stars because I like the number five, and in a spirit of optimistic anticipation of what I hope will be half a century of accurate astronomical information. Besides, one *uses* an ephemeris; I never heard of anyone reading one.

Rating:
Summary: Very well done
Review: the book was very informative and accurate