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Re: Navigation by star charts
From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Jul 30, 03:09 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2025 Jul 30, 03:09 -0700
More thoughts:
In the first picture, Orion has fallen over, so I'm thinking near the Equator. You can see le Octant and la Croix du Sud, so I'm thinking south of the Equator. Then there's Gary boldly searching for a difficult gap using only his sextant, so I'm thinking French Polynesia around 18S 150W. These 18th and 19th Century Navigator/Astronomers loved disappearing to the far side of the Earth to view things like the Transit of Venus. There again, if was Mouchez, it might be St Paul’s Island in the Indian Ocean, but it wouldn’t be nighttime at 10.00UT, and at 38S I think it would be too far south. This won't get Zephyr back in the water. DaveP
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