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    Re: Sight Reduction Form With No Duplication?
    From: Mike Burkes
    Date: 2008 Jun 26, 14:00 -0700
    Hi Rob that's a good one it even has the trig formulas, pretty complete.
    Mike B

    > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:22:53 -0400
    > From: enoid@northwestel.net
    > Subject: [NavList 5592] Re: Sight Reduction Form With No Duplication?
    > To: NavList@fer3.com
    >
    > Gentlemen
    >
    > Attached is a form that I cobbled together quite a few years ago and tweaked a few times before I got it to where I wanted it to be. Cannot say there is no duplication/transfer of numbers but I do not see this as a problem.
    >
    > Bit of explanation: Form is designed to be printed double-sided so you can reduce four sights on a single sheet of paper. Note under sextant corrections, "total correction" is placed above refraction, additional and temp corrections. You add the total corrections, scribble them on the blank white space below and then transpose it to the "total corrections" box. Why? Just to make it easier to subtract the total corrections from the App. Alt.
    >
    > Other notes: although I devised the form primarily for electronic calculatior reduction, it can also be readily used with HO 249, hence the reference to HO 249 in brackets.
    >
    > Finally, I squeezed in some basic formulas and rules so they are always in your face.
    >
    > Of course this form works fine for me but I find that with experienced navigators, the type of sight reduction form one uses tends to be a personal thing.
    >
    > I got thick skin (I'm married) so feel free to critique.
    >
    >
    > Robert
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Greg R." <gregr_ingest@yahoo.com>
    > Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:20 am
    > Subject: [NavList 5590] Re: Sight Reduction Form With No Duplication?
    >
    > >
    > > --- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:
    > >
    > > > My rote memory "forms," for both 229 and 249, have one
    > > duplication
    > > > copying only Ho from the Hs-Ho line to below the Hc line to get
    > > > intercept.
    > >
    > > Yeah, everybody seems to be running into the same "problem" that I did
    > > - no matter how small we can condense the forms there's still that
    > > transfer of Ho from it's calculation lines to where the intercept is
    > > calculated. But if that's also the best that the experts on the list
    > > can do, I'm satisfied that's probably as good as it's gonna get.
    > > :-)
    > >
    > > > I suppose I could forgo this duplication, but it would be a bit
    > > more
    > > > mentally taxing to look at numbers from either different columns
    > > or
    > > > far down the same column (I often do one or the other).
    > >
    > > Which really begs the question of using a worksheet/form in the first
    > > place (for me, the one that I came up with is both a memory aid
    > > and a
    > > hedge against making stupid mistakes in the process, since I usually
    > > don't do celnav on a daily basis).
    > >
    > > > I tend not to use pre-made forms as I find them limiting for
    > > > different kinds of sights. I pretty much run along for what
    > > > I need to do and adapt as necessary.
    > >
    > > Here lately since a lot of us are on the old-school kick of "doing it
    > > manually" I can pretty much just use a sheet of blank paper without
    > > needing "prompting" from a worksheet - but if I get away from doing
    > > that for a few years (as I had up until now) I wouldn't want to
    > > bet the
    > > navigation of the boat on being able to recall all of the steps from
    > > memory... ;-)
    > >
    > > > If you'd like, i can try and photograph or scan one of my nav
    > > > notebook pages to show you how I do it.
    > >
    > > Sure, always glad to see what approaches others are using - one of the
    > > biggest advantages to being on this mailing list. :-)
    > >
    > > --
    > > GregR
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > --- Anabasis75@aol.com wrote:
    > >
    > > >
    > > > My rote memory "forms," for both 229 and 249, have one
    > > duplication
    > > > copying
    > > > only Ho from the Hs-Ho line to below the Hc line to get
    > > intercept.
    > > > I suppose
    > > > I could forgo this duplication, but it would be a bit more
    > > mentally
    > > > taxing to
    > > > look at numbers from either different columns or far down the
    > > same
    > > > column (I
    > > > often do one or the other). Otherwise I do no other duplications.
    > > >
    > > > I tend not to use pre-made forms as I find them limiting for
    > > > different kinds
    > > > of sights. I pretty much run along for what I need to do and
    > > adapt
    > > > as
    > > > necessary. For example, for a sunline verses an ex-meridian, I need
    > > > to calculate
    > > > LHA (or t) for both and use the same basic "form" but I don't
    > > > pre-print
    > > > anything to accomplish this task, as it varies from there. I just
    > > > "download" it
    > > > from my head for each kind of sight. The only "form" I use these
    > > > days is a
    > > > Bruce Starke Lunar as I am too much a newbie with them to memorize
    > > > the form yet.
    > > >
    > > > If you'd like, i can try and photograph or scan one of my nav
    > > > notebook pages
    > > > to show you how I do it.
    > > >
    > > > Jeremy
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >
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    > >
    > >
    > > >
    > >
    >
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