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Re: Box Sextant by HB
From: David Pike
Date: 2024 Mar 25, 15:16 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2024 Mar 25, 15:16 -0700
K McGrath you wrote: “It came with a clino so as has been said probably used for artillery. Seems to work quite nicely but a bit challenging with an artificial horizon.”
By mentioning ‘artificial horizon’, you suggest that your box sextant would have been used vertically. Had you considered it might also have been used horizontally in the field in conjunction with a map with marked features and a station pointer, graph paper, or geometry? The geometric solution gets a bit complicated. It took me an hour to remember it from 1983. I bet Gary LaPook will know. DaveP
