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    Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2015 Mar 28, 14:43 -0700

    Herman,

    Getting within a few degrees with a hand bearing compass observation only requires observing the horizon directly under the body. Sometimes the Sun produces a useful reflection on the water.  If you really want a unique solution then improvise a Bris sextant out of some microscope slides that are taped together so that the bottom edge acts like a hinge. Adjust the slide spread so that the Sun reflection is visible at the horizon. 

    Greg Rudzinski

    From: Herman Dekker
    Date: 2015 Mar 28, 06:14 -0700

    In some books you read determ the bearing off a celestial object.

    How can you do that reliable?
    Is there a special compass or so for this purpose?
    With a normal magnetic bearing compass you can look only a few degrees upwards
    before the compassrose stalls.

    A compass with pelorus may works perhaps, but who has that, with a free sight
    around a yacht?

    So who has the solution for this?

    regards

    HermanD



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