"Mark Wrigley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not quite true.
> Last month Australia had a full moon at about 2am on Feb 1.
> In Europe it was still January.

Quite so.  Meeus (careful calculator that he is) explicitly notes his
use of UT (and the dependence of such a calculation on the time zone).
The fault is mine for not propagating that bit of information.

Jim
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