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Re: Lunar Distances with Frank's sextant
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Nov 6, 20:48 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2006 Nov 6, 20:48 -0500
Hmm, I stand corrected. I could have sworn you mentioned having a C. Plath a few years ago. Fred On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:55 PM, FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote: > Fred, last week you wrote: > "Just to tease Frank, I would have thought he would have let you use > his Plath rather than an old Simex!" > > Well, I would have if I still had one.I view ebay sextant > purchases as rentals. I can buy a sextant, experiment with it, > assess its positive and negative features, and then sell it again. > I'm usually only losing the cost of shipping in the transaction and > sometimes I make a modest profit. > > But I have one old, inexpensive sextant that I have decided to hang > onto since it gives excellent results most of the time for lunars. > It was the second least expensive metal sextant I've bought on > ebay. That's the one I loaned to Alex. Strictly, it's not a Simex. > It's branded "International Nautical", but it looks exactly like a > Simex. It's also nearly identical to an M.A.C. sextant. They're all > licensed Tamayas apparently. > > -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---