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Re: Navlist photo of woman using sextant
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2022 Apr 18, 13:09 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2022 Apr 18, 13:09 -0400
There are not a lot of 4 masted schooners about. I identified it as the Windy, which takes tourists for cruises on Lake Michigan from its berth on the Chicago waterfront.
Don Seltzer
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 12:46 PM Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:
Don Seltzer, you wrote:
"Chicago."Could be... could be... Yes, possibly close to the "Windy" City. :)
And how do you know? There is a contextual clue, for some people: do you recognize that vessel in the background? Or did you do it by celestial navigation, working the lunar to get Greenwich Apparent Time, then comparing with the given Local Apparent Time to get longitude and then the latitude from the Sun's altitude? Or did you read about it in an earlier post? ;)
I don't want to give it away yet, but the attached images offer a few more sublte clues --the merest of hints-- on the possible location and the circumstances of that lunar observation.
Frank Reed
Clockwork Mapping / ReedNavigation.com
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