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From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2008 Sep 23, 09:49 +0200
Yes
I say in [NavList 6290]:
The calculated star-star distance is
compared with the observed one to obtain the sextant error, that is the index
error plus the instrumental error inherent to the sextant.
and as Frank says in [NavList 6302],
the objective is to build a table for the sextant error in all the arc from 0º
to 120/130º
In a museum I have seen a XIX century
sextant with two table, one for the index error and another for the excentricity.
Also to practice with the sextant
for fun.
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Bill, [NavList 6295], the program
runs only under windows XP, 98, 98, 200, NT, sorry.
Frank: [NavList 6303] “I think a title that would make more
sense (at least in English) would be 'sextant calibration by star-star
distance' or 'arc error by star-star distance'.” – Yes, I think is
better.
Thanks,
Andrés Ruiz
http://www.geocities.com/andresruizgonzalez
De: NavList@fer3.com
[mailto:NavList@fer3.com] En nombre
de Gary LaPook
Enviado el: lunes, 22 de
septiembre de 2008 19:52
Para: NavList@fer3.com
Asunto: [NavList 6294] Re: Index
error by a star-star distance
O.........K............. I guess I don't
get it. Why not just sight on one star which should have a zero altitude
difference between the two images of the same star. Where is the advantage in
using two stars? In addition you would not be determining "index
error" since the measured error would be the total of index error
and "arc error" and you could not determine the contributions of each
of these components. Star to star distance can be used to check for arc error
but only after index error has been determined by some other method since this
value must be subtracted from the measured star to star distance before
comparing the measured distance to the computed distance thereby
determining the arc error at that point of the arc.
gl
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