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Re: Has anyone made a Bris sextant - what kind of glass did you use?
From: Brian Villmoare
Date: 2022 Feb 22, 22:36 -0800
From: Brian Villmoare
Date: 2022 Feb 22, 22:36 -0800
Thanks very much for that, Greg - it is extremely useful. And it looks tricky to line up the sun in the artificial sextant! From looking at your numbers, I assume that for whichever image the sun aligns with, you cut the angle in half (similarly with a normal sextant)?