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From: Marty Lyons
Date: 2014 Oct 23, 08:03 -0700
I tried various mountings of watches on the sextant and have abandoned them. The attached pics show my method. I start the mechanical stopwatch running at the time of the shot, then drop the stopwatch on it's lanyard. I then glance at the Taylor quartz clock (set to GMT) to see what the next whole minute will be, in preparation to stop the stopwatch when the quartz clock strikes the whole minute. In this case, 14:23:00. I then write down the whole minute, and write the stopwatch reading, in this case 8 seconds, beneath it for the subsequent subtraction for actual sight time. The stopwatch time is always rounded down from actual reading to the next lower whole second. This accounts for two instances of reaction time, in my case of about a half second each.
