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Re: Do We Still Need to Use Sextants?
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Apr 8, 12:56 -0700
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Apr 8, 12:56 -0700
I have a modest Orion 'Intelliscope' meaning that as long as it knows vertical (ah, there's the rub), it will read out both alt and az as well as ra and dec. of any object. The encoders are really cheap, and do 2.3 min (360/9216) resolution.
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