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Thank you very much for the dimensions and the picture. Golly,
vis-a-vis the Tamaya, the Skalen looks like a panzer alongside a
rickshaw.

As you suggest, the size of the tank's garage may have been a factor
in lack of enthusiasm among navigators.

As a matter of curiosity, which sextant's box holds the record? I no
longer have my C. Plath, but it's case had the snap-fitting which
clamped the sextant's handle when you set it into the box. The
advantage was you could stow the sextant quickly and without
re-setting the arm to 40�. The extra size was a distinct annoyance,
though, both traveling and stowing.

-Hewitt

On 3/26/09, engineer@clear.net.nz  wrote:
>
>  Hellow, Henry
>
>  You wrote:"Can you give an idea of the measurements of the Skalen? Judging from
>
> the sizes of the knob and the index mirror it looks like it might be
>  7/8 or even 3/4 of a standard full-size sextant."
>
>
> Dimensions:
>
>  End of eyepiece to front of horizon shades 260 mm;
>  Top of handle to bottom of release catch 220 mm;
>  Thickness of frame 30 mm;
>  Height overall from back of handle to top of horizon shades 160 mm.
>  Weight 1.6 kg;
>  Index mirror 52 x 42 mm;
>  Horizon mirror half-silvered, 56 mm diameter;
>  Telescope 3.5 x 40 Galilean.
>
>  Box dimensions 300 x 290 x 190 mm, almost a record!
>
>  I've updated the picture on my blog (www.sextantbook.com) of the view 
through the eyepiece and added one of the skalensextant alongside a Tamaya 
632D.
>
>  Kind regards
>
>
>  Bill Morris
>  Pukenui
>  New Zealand
>
>
>  >
>

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