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    Re: Metric Bookmark Kamal
    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2016 Mar 16, 21:17 -0700

    The metric kamal assignment for this evening was to observe Canopus at meridian passage. Fortunately Canopus is a bright star and was visible to the naked eye very low in the sky through a light haze at the end of civil twilight. Reading the kamal was quite a trick. I used my thumb nail to mark the scale and then interpolated the minutes of arc by eye. A good LED flashlight was most helpful.

    19:40:00 PDT  3/16/2016 Canopus

    02:40:00 UT    3/17/2016

    Hs 3° 25'

    ref. -13.1'

    dip -2.5'

    Ho 3° 9.4'

    Dec 52° 42.8' S 

    Sum 55° 52.2'

    90° - 55° 52.8' = Lat. 34° 7.8' N (GPS 34° 10.2' N)

    Greg Rudzinski

    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2016 Mar 16, 09:33 -0700

    The first complete trial of the Metric Kamal has been completed with good result under perfect conditions at the beach from a height of eye of 5 ft. A 22" dowel was used in place of a tape measure. This frees up a hand (see attached image). Intercepts from GPS  for 9° to 1° were all under 8' while above 9° were over 10'. Not too bad for a CN tool that took less than 30 minutes to make.

    Greg Rudzinski



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