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Re: The Moon and the bubble sextant: how to correct properly?
From: David Iwancio
Date: 2022 Mar 15, 22:56 -0700
From: David Iwancio
Date: 2022 Mar 15, 22:56 -0700
Tony:
The procedure looks right, and using the Air Almanac procedure as a sanity check I got a correction of +50', which is close enough.
I'd guess the problem is either in your sextant, your clock or your GNSS fix.
(Or squinting at the vernier scale.)
