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Re: Calibrating a sextant scale
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2007 Dec 03, 10:01 -0700
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2007 Dec 03, 10:01 -0700
On 2 Dec 2007 at 23:30, frankreed@HistoricalAtlas.net wrote: > I did come up with another > possibility: how about a nice dry lake bed? There are plenty that are flat > as a pancake for miles. Set up posts around the radius of a circle at > roughly equal angles, and voila, a sextant calibration observatory! How about frozen lakes? There are many with landmarks spaced nicely all the way around the shore. Ken Muldrew. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
