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Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Apr 01, 14:33 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2015 Apr 01, 14:33 -0400
On 3/31/2015 2:26 PM, Francis Upchurch wrote: > Beautiful pelorus! Wish I could find one at a reasonable price. For > those who cannot afford the usual price for these beauties, (me > included), you can build one for virtually nothing using plans from > Dennis Fisher's book, Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings OLD plans from Popular Mechanics. http://books.google.com/books?id=FtcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA115&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false When time permits, I hope to marry a kludged version with Fisher's plans for a gimbaled unit, using the Helix "2 in 1 Protractor and Compass" which has a rotating inner disk. (Helix #36002, Hobby Lobby, $3.95)
