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Re: Air Force Lab Plans R&D into Celestial-Aided Navigation Tech
From: Zane Grey
Date: 2019 Jun 1, 20:59 +0800
From: Zane Grey
Date: 2019 Jun 1, 20:59 +0800
Hey buddy! My name's Zane! That would be awesome to complete Galileo's project!!!! I'm going to sea in August and I'm going to take a small reflector with me! Just to see how bad the movement it is... What size boat where you on? I'm off on a 200m container ship. Last trip I was laying on the fo'csle looking up at the stars on quiet nights thinking... I'm hardly moving, I wonder if the big ships are stable enough now when it's calm?
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019, 2:33 pm Francis Upchurch, <NoReply_Upchurch@fer3.com> wrote:
A. Grey (what's your first name fellow navlister?) suggests telescopes with stabiliser. I've tried a homemade stabiliser and 4 inch refractor for Jupiter moons / longitude with no success at sea. I find it difficult enough on land on a solid tripod, but may have another go with a better stabiliser. Should be possible. Would be good to successfully finish a Galileo project started hundreds of years ago! Francis -----Original Message----- From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of A Grey Sent: 01 June 2019 00:17 To: francis{at}pharmout.co.uk Subject: [NavList] Re: Air Force Lab Plans R&D into Celestial-Aided Navigation Tech Wow! That's interesting! I was actually wondering if it was possible now to use telescope based methods on a ship now cause of all the advanced stabilisation frames from the military just the other day... [plain text auto-generated] ---------------------------------------------------------------- NavList message boards and member settings: http://fer3.com/NavList Members may optionally receive posts by email. To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx/Air-Force-Lab-Plans-RD-into-CelestialAided-Navigation-Tech-AGrey-may-2019-g45109
