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Re: Celestial Navigation in the Movies
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2019 Oct 4, 18:36 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2019 Oct 4, 18:36 -0700
Even in a well made movie the celestial navigation scenes can get messed up. In this movie clip of Das Boot ( 3:38) the navigator brings down Venus to 27°but the sextant index arm is beyond 60°. Oh well ...no one will notice. I will blame the dubbing :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6sDbWW9X8
Greg Rudzinski
