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Re: "Improved" sextants
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 6, 16:16 -0500
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jul 6, 16:16 -0500
"> hundred bucks that will read out angular > tilt relative to true level accurate > to +/-0.1 degrees or so. I remember Bill's old cardboard sextant (the whole sextant substantially less than $100). It was equipped with a simple bubble level of comparable accuracy." Yes, even a basic sextant still beats anything off-the-shelf. I looked into this last year just to see if there was something available for an entirely different purpose that might do service as a digital sextant --just for fun. Those $100 digital carpentry levels were as close as I could find, so we aren't there yet but we're close. -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
