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    Re: Bris quick dirty construction
    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2025 Jan 21, 07:41 -0800

    5 minute two part epoxy has worked well for all of my DIY Bris sextants.  Small batches of epoxy mixed and applied with a tooth pick has been the prefered technique.  The beam splitter glass was ordered to the desired size and paired with one cut microscope slide to assemble on a camera UV filter lens.  Shims were 2mm pencil leads.  No shading required. 10 useable sun reflections are formed between 12 and 61 degrees of altitude.  A legacy 55mm Super Takumar SMC lens is used to hold Bris and also UTC time stamps to the second when reflection is on the horizon or when using a Davis artificial horizon.

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