Star and Planet Almanac

There is once again no English version of the "Sterren- en Planetenkalender". English speaking people can order the German or Dutch version of the "Star and Planet  Calendar 2009" for the same price as people living in the Netherlands (no extra post charge).
You also can buy the German version "Sternen- und Planetenkalender 2009" in bookshops in Germany, Swiss and Austrian, at the website of Verlag Urachhaus in Stuttgart or order them at bookshops in Great-Britain.
ISBN 978-3-8251-7619-8
 

Prices of the copies

The price of the Dutch "Sterren- en Planetenkalender 2009" is Euro 19,50.

 For informations about transportprices:  
Drukkerij Uitgeverij Kerckebosch  
tel. 0031-30-69 21 444  
fax: 0031-30-69 12 174 
E-mail: sterrenkalender@kerckebosch.nl
 

You can order by paying cash (sending money by post),
or sending a cheque payable to Kerckebosch, Zeist
or with a bank transfer to
Kerckebosch
Julianalaan 65 - 67
3708 BB Zeist
the Netherlands
IBAN NL 87 INGB 0790 8129 57
BIC: INGBNL2A
"shared costs"

mentioning:    " .... copies Sterrenkalender 2009"  and your own addresss.
 

Star and Planet almanac,
Star and Planet calendar 2009

For 2009 there is no English version of the Star and Planet Calendar. The English compagnie which published our work in 2001, 2002 and 2003 under the name "Star and Planet Almanac" cancelled April 2003 at the last moment 6,000 copies of the "Star and Planet Almanac 2004". For 2005 they started "their own almanac" using our evening star maps and many ideas without mentioning us, also without asking us for permission. After very much writing they accepted and paid some money for using the maps in 2005. Though for 2006 they didnot get permission to use our work, they again made a stargazers' almanac 2006 which looks like a (cheap) copy of our work. Their almanac 2006, 2007 and 2008 doesnot have our evening maps, but maps which look quite the same as our 12 midnight-maps at an enlarged scale.

Plagiarizing our star maps was so easily done. We did send that English publisher June 2002 a PDF-file of January-December 2003, because of they wanted to check the English language. They received 36 star maps: the 12 evening maps, the 12 midnight maps and the 12 morning maps. With these PDF-files you are able to change a little bit in e.g the layer of the sky colour, the layer of the horizon, the shape of the stars, with the effect "star maps which look different".