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Re: How does the AstraIIIb split mirror work?
From: Chuck Taylor
Date: 2004 Apr 23, 08:30 -0700

--- George Huxtable  wrote:

> Indeed, this is the only purpose I can see in
> having that unsilvered area of glass at all.
> Otherwise, in a split-horizon sextant the horizon
> mirror could just as well be truncated at the edge
> of the silvered part.

I have seen Tamaya sextants made that way, with no
glass at all on the left side of the "horizon glass".

Chuck Taylor
North of Seattle, WA, USA

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