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Re: The Moon and the bubble sextant: how to correct properly?
From: Tony Oz
Date: 2022 Mar 16, 07:17 -0700
From: Tony Oz
Date: 2022 Mar 16, 07:17 -0700
Dear David, thanks for the review.
The sextant (I work with an ИМС-3, a SOLD KM2 clone) is OK because the Sun LoPs look plausible. It was my first time using NA's tables for the Moon in the bubble-horizon-way. Before that, with my СНО-М (or the FREIBERGER), I had reasonable Moon LoPs with natural horizon and UL/LL. But also the temperature was within the table limits (normally I use these tables by Erik De Man).
Next time I'll try to align Moon's limb with the bubble's center - and apply the "normal" correction procedure. Hope that will let me to expose the root of the problem.
Warm regards,
Tony
60°N 30°E
