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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Randall Morrow
Date: 2013 Dec 11, 07:47 -0800
The rising piece adjustability helps with lunars because it can be difficult to find the moon or reference body with the sextant in and awkward position. It seems to work best to shoot at the brightest object and make the field of view for the dimmer one larger by moving the telescope either closer to or farther from the sextant frame. It makes finding an illusive and faint daytime
cresent moon easier. For artificial horizon sights (without a pre calculated altitude) it makes it easier to sweep to find dimmer stars.
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