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Re: Freiberger sextant with prism
From: Paul Bedel
Date: 2022 May 24, 08:54 -0700
From: Paul Bedel
Date: 2022 May 24, 08:54 -0700
Yes, not easy at all to shoot the sun in the back and the horizon in front with the pentaprism. But, I'll try to think carefully to this question.
In fact, the pentaprism is first fitted to measure horizontal angle > 90° between two landmarks.
Regards. Paul.
