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Re: First sights
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2007 Jan 22, 15:09 -0500
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2007 Jan 22, 15:09 -0500
Gary, Hats off to you that you can get a teenage girl to take an interest in anything other than fashion, pop music, malls, boys and "attitude". You have her started off on the right foot. I hope that celestial navigation gets her before pop culture does. cheers, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: GaryDate: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:03 pm Subject: [NavList 2123] First sights > > Thanks to everyone for the great information. Took my new sextant to > the lake sat morning and took some sights before the clouds rolled in > and the snow descended. after using HO 299 for the calculations I > ended up between 2 - 5 miles from where the GPS said I was > standing on > the shore. Had to use dip short calculations as the lake was 1.2 > mileswide in the direction of the sights. Overall it was great > fun to > reduce the sun and see what things looked like in the sextant. I > stillneed to understand the filters better, as well as need LOTS more > practice. My 15 yr old daughter who was recording info for me enjoyed > taking some sights as well. Actually she turned out to be the closest > once all the calculations were done. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---