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Re: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Date Refinement

Hi, Robert!

Thanks for your hard work on this project.

Could you clarify whether these are Old Calendar
dates, or New Calendar?

Warmly,

Pam

--- Robert Teague <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Further analysis of f68r3 has narrowed the possible
> dates the event
> depicted occured.
> 
> Besides Aldebaran and the Pleiades shown in the NW
> section, the
> two stars in the NE section are Algol (closest to
> the Moon) and Mirfak.
> They point at the Moon.  This is enough to give a
> precise position, and
> the Moon occults the Pleiades the next night.
> 
> On nearly every folio where the Moon is drawn, it is
> shown in a 
> waxing gibbous (approaching full) phase, and this
> folio is no exception. 
> It appears that way in Taurus only at the end of the
> year.
> 
> No planets intrude in the diagram. It is late at
> night, so Mercury and
> Venus are eliminated as possibilities.
> 
> The following dates meet the conditions above,
> grouped by
> occultation period:
> 
> 04 Dec 1413
> 22 Dec 1414
> 
> 22 Dec 1433
> 
> 28 Dec 1503
> 25 Dec 1506
> 
> 28 Dec 1522
> 18 Dec 1523
> 07 Dec 1524
> 14 Dec 1526
> 
> 10 Dec 1540
> 30 Nov 1541
> 
> 20 Dec 1577
> 10 Dec 1578
> 07 Dec 1582
> 
> 27 Dec 1599
> 
> Additional information:  west is at the bottom of
> the diagram,
> and the SE section may be Triangulum.
> 
> 
> Robert
> 
> "Drop the hot sauce, and step away from the nose!" 
> --Shego
> 
>
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