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Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
From: Tom Sult
Date: 2015 Mar 28, 14:05 -0500
From: Tom Sult
Date: 2015 Mar 28, 14:05 -0500
I have a KVH dataScope on my sextant. It is a digital compass and chronometer in a 5 X 30 scope. . http://www.kvh.com/Press-Room/Press-Release-Library/2008/KVH-DataScope-is-Practical-Sailor-Magazines-King-of-the-HandBearing-Compasses.aspx.
I got a becket from... I think celestair??
Tom Sult, MD
Tom Sult, MD
Author: JUST BE WELL
justbewell.info
In some books you read determ the bearing off a celestial object.
How can you do that reliable?
Is there a special compass or so for this purpose?
With a normal magnetic bearing compass you can look only a few degrees upwards
before the compassrose stalls.A compass with pelorus may works perhaps, but who has that, with a free sight
around a yacht?So who has the solution for this?
regards
HermanD
