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this is a Russian Cetus sextant. I have one.
There should be 2 telescopes. One with cross-hairs which also magnifies - I
will have to get mine out to see hat the magnification is... (i'm writing
this from my office). The second eyepiece shows the image the correct way
around.

I bought mine in canaries just before Atlantic crossing (I already had a
Freiberger on board) for about 150 pounds. They used to be sold by Sewills
(sp ?) in UK for about 400 pounds + in UK about 8 years ago.

It's a very good sextant, fairly heavy allowing it to be easily stabilized
when taking sights from a small boat. I liked the "coloured" shades,
excellent for obtaining a clear image of the sun. The disadvantage is that
mine has a split mirror vs a full mirror on my Freiberger
Throughout the crossing I used both sextants for daily positions shooting,
Sun, Moon and planet sights (not simultaneously). I cannot really say which
I preferred; I like them both.


Aubrey.

At 12:27 29/01/02, you wrote:
>A friend bought a Russian sextant through e-bay and is looking for infos.
>
>He received the sextant in his wooden box.
>Screwed to the box are 2 small engraved plates
>A small ( 10mm x 30mm ) engraved plate shows  SNO-M
>A bigger one ( 20mm x 40mm ) shows a circle in the middle with the letter K
>followed by a figure that looks like a 6.  Years, serial numbers, etc. also
>appears on the plate.
>The instrument in painted grey (probably aluminum).
>When you look through the eyepiece (scope), the image is reversed like in a
>t�lescope
>Glued inside the cover of the box are 2 pieces of paper with various
>inscriptions (probably corrections to be applied or something similar but
>can not decepher exept for the numbers as it is written in Russian)
>
>Any infos ???
>
>many thanks
>
>Pierre Boucher
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Aubrey O'Callaghan
Wandrin' Star of Dart
Rival 38

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