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From: Alan S
Date: 2013 May 26, 16:23 -0700
Picked up a copy of the above mentioned at the Wooden Boat Show, Beaufort North Carolina, and noticed, whilst playing around with my Rude Star Finder (2102D), the following seeming errors.
Capella is listed at an altitude of 40 North, Azimuth of 314. I get, looking at my 2102D an altitude of 40 Degrees, Azimuth 0f 305 Degrees.
Betelgeuse is listed as Altitude 32 Degrees, Azimuth 251 Degrees.I get an Azimuth of 257 Degrees. Altitude is about as listed. Has anyone else ever noticed this, or was there ever been an error sheet printed? Am I making mountains out of a couple of grains of sand.
We spent a month at Emerald Isle,conditions were not so good for sextant shots, fair amount of rain and cloud, fuzzy horizon. Could not seem to get any evening star shots, horizon was to dark when stars came out, such is life.
I'm curious as to height conflict between the book data and what I got from my 2102D.
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