Where can I find a star map precessed to 10,500 years ago?

I do not know the answer to this, other than through some desktop planetarium simulator. Even so, that's a rather long stretch of time for these kinds of simple sky simulators. During this time, the equinoxes have shifted by about 1/2 their full 360-degree cycle along the ecliptic plane.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald

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