From: gdpusch@NO.xnet.SPAM.com   
      
   velovich@aol.com.CanDo (V-Man) writes:   
      
   >    Having already been to an almanac page and not finding this, is there   
   > a page that can tell me, for a given date in the last century, what   
   > planets were visible?   
      
   The book you are looking for is called an "Ephemeris." Back before the   
   development of GPS, when ships used the Sun and the stars to navigate,   
   you could find one in every ocean-going ship's chartroom.   
      
      
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