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Time recording, was: Satr-to-star
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Sep 30, 19:49 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Sep 30, 19:49 -0500
Dear Jared, Thanks. I suspect that even my own Casio watch ($25) might have this feature, but I lost the manual:-) Anyway, there so many buttons and they are so small:-( My main problem with time recording is putting my eyeglasses on and off: I need eyeglasses to SEE the time on my Casio watch, to do time recording, or ANY recording wharsoever, but I have to take them off when I look into my sextant scope:-) Forseeing some comments: yes, I read Bruce Bauer about eyeglasses:-) I still have more than 6 months to think about this problem before I can possibly go to the sea with my sextant:-) > The trick is to memorize exactly which button to press, Yes, this is the trick:-) I am always afraid to RESET my watch by pressing the wrong button:-) Actually I am contemplating buying a real genuine Russian marine mechanical stop-watch of huge diameter, with a split second hand, of the sort you can see on p. 141 in Bauer. It is only about $120 from a Russian seller I trust, a real thing made of metal, much better value than a $250 software:-) A much more ambitious project is to buy a genuine chronometer made by Mercer. But the price sems to have jumped up last summer on e-bay:-( And I have no assistant:-( Alex.