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Re: My first lunar
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2023 Apr 3, 19:15 +0000
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2023 Apr 3, 19:15 +0000
You wrote: > I chose my SNO-T to take out because it is the lightest of my nautical sextants and I would have to hold it off at an odd angle (about 45deg) to bring the two > together. > What I had not counted on was the shades of the SNO-T - they are rather binary. Since the Moon was lower and more north of Regulus, I set up to view the Moon > via the horizon mirror and Regulus using the index mirror. But the horizon shades were a choice of "Moon too bright" or "What Moon?". This surprises me. I took hundreds of Lunars with my SNO-T and never had any problems of this sort. It has 4 index shades, and there always exists some combination of them which makes the Moon or Sun look appropriately. Are you sure your SNO has all its shades? Did you try to combine the two lightest shades? Alex.
