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Celestial Navigation at NEAF
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2015 Apr 18, 12:39 -0700
From: Robin Stuart
Date: 2015 Apr 18, 12:39 -0700
I visited the North Eastern Astronomy Forum (NEAF) at the SUNY Rockland Community College in Suffern, New York. Amongst the gathering of solar telescopes I found Gary the Astronomer offering free sextant lessons to anyone who would listen. Kudos to Gary.
He was using a Davis plastic sextant and for an artificial horizon had a sheet of glass in a wooden frame floating in a pan of water (see the attached photograph). He claimed to be able to get 1 mile accuracy.
Robin Stuart
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