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Re: Lunar Distances with Alex's SNO-T
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Nov 03, 19:05 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2006 Nov 03, 19:05 -0500
> Judging by the shape of the gate > it is either USA football or rugby. Alex I am voting for the old K-mart. We can set the sextant(s) up on a piece of wood at home. Level the frame fore and aft, and get our laser set up in the middle of the scope eyepiece, hitting the junction of the glass/mirror of the horizon mirror and centered so we have some hope of using the portion of the scope and mirror we use in the field. Then move that calibrated or fixed unit to the site. At the site we can adhere a target to a wall (or just use the wall) at the greatest distance the laser can be seen or until we run out of parking lot. We can position our vehicles to either side of the table to block wind and/or stray traffic (for our safety). That leaves one of us taking measurements from the near piece of target poster board maybe 50 ft away, then going to the wall to measure and report back for any adjustment. A pair of my FRS radios should save a bit of shoe leather once we get the course adjustments done (near and far target the same--hopefully no more than several rounds if our initial IE figures are close). Thoughts? Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---