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Re: C. Plath Sextant - St. Augustine Lighthouse Museum
From: Martin Caminos
Date: 2024 Dec 31, 16:50 -0800
From: Martin Caminos
Date: 2024 Dec 31, 16:50 -0800
Hello Frank,
Following your comments about the C.Plath sextant withoout a micrometer vernier scale, it looks like most of the sextants of those times, regardless the manufactuturer and country, did not include that feature.
The exception would be the Henry & Hughes (1944) which has a micrometer's scale in seconds of a degree.
From my personal collection, below are pictures of some sextants without micrometers. All these sextants are in working conditions and I never had a problem in visually estimating the minute's decimal point.
From left to right, these are the sextant's manufactures and years:
Tamaya (1928) - Henry Hughes (1944) - C. Plath (1952) - Tamaya (1967) - SNO-T (1998)
Happy New Year !!
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