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Re: GPS shortcomings.
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 9, 08:23 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2005 Jun 9, 08:23 +1000
> From: Lu Abel > Along that line, I will eat crow on my earlier posting and say that I'd > take the price of one of the extra GPS receivers and use it instead to > purchase a plastic sextant My respectful suggestion is to think seriously of putting the extra money towards a metal sextant. > (but then there's the perpetual problem long > distance voyagers have, how to get a new NA every year) George Bennett has addressed this problem with his "Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator" which supplies a five year almanac plus everything else needed - sight reduction tables, star finder tables, instructions, examples, forms to be photo-copied, etc, etc, all in a slim volume that costs about 20 bucks. It is specifically designed to be a backup system to GPS.
