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Re: Buying a sextant- a cautionary tale.
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 May 1, 14:45 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 May 1, 14:45 -0400
Bill, > As I recall you do not apply the Freiberger arc errors to your observations > as they are so small inmost cases. No I do not. > That is what really bothered me. If it were some newbie that treated the > sextant like a toy, I would be inclined to ignore it. But I know you to > take great care and have a very good eye and hand (relative to mine ;-) And you also tried this sextant, and got the same sort of error. A
