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The Skyscout does not provide altitudes.

The Skyscout provides the Right Ascension and Declination of the object, along with its Name.

Hope that clarifies it a bit.  The altitudes I provided are from my (apparently defective) spreadsheet.

-----Original Message-----
From: navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Brad Morris
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:49 AM
To: NavList@fer3.com
Subject: [NavList] Re: Star - Star Observations

The Skyscout did indicate Alphard and Sirius as the objects.  Further, the sextant was
horizontal.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: navlist-bounce@fer3.com [mailto:navlist-bounce@fer3.com] On Behalf Of George Huxtable
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:46 AM
To: NavList@fer3.com
Subject: [NavList] Re: Star - Star Observations

Well, Brad, what stars did your Skyscout tell you it was looking at, then?
And how come it provided you with two altitudes that differed by 9� , when
at that time Alphard and Sirius had the same altitude within a few
arc-minutes? Was it Alphard and Sirius that you were observing, when
measuring distance between two stars? If they were, your sextant would have
been exactly horizontal. Was it?


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