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Re: Lunar distance measurement in ideal conditions: attainable accuracy.
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Jan 16, 21:13 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2013 Jan 16, 21:13 -0500
On 1/16/2013 8:21 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > ...Actually, it's not all that difficult if you know two tricks... A third trick comes to mind. When doing observations with a body and horizon, it may be easier to invert the sextant, sight along the tube to locate the target body,look through the scope and center the body, then bring the substantially larger horizon up to the body. Once in rough alignment, flip the sextant. For point sources and the moon, perhaps bringing the moon to the point source then flipping the sextant to the most comfortable position (if necessary) might make sense (At least on paper ;-) Bill B.
