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Gary,

Hats off to you that you can get a teenage girl to take an interest in 
anything other than fashion, pop music, malls, boys and "attitude".

You have her started off on the right foot. I hope that celestial navigation 
gets her before pop culture does.

cheers,

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary 
Date: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:03 pm
Subject: [NavList 2123] First sights

>
> Thanks to everyone for the great information.  Took my new sextant to
> the lake sat morning and took some sights before the clouds rolled in
> and the snow descended.  after using HO 299 for the calculations I
> ended up between 2 - 5 miles from where the GPS said I was
> standing on
> the shore.  Had to use dip short calculations as the lake was 1.2
> mileswide in the direction of the sights.  Overall it was great
> fun to
> reduce the sun and see what things looked like in the sextant.  I
> stillneed to understand the filters better, as well as need LOTS more
> practice.  My 15 yr old daughter who was recording info for me enjoyed
> taking some sights as well.  Actually she turned out to be the closest
> once all the calculations were done.
>
>
> >
>


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