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Re: New ways to create false horizons?
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2017 Jul 24, 09:31 -0700
From: John D. Howard
Date: 2017 Jul 24, 09:31 -0700
Mark,
No need to bend the caliper into an arc, just use the straight line to measure the cord of the sextant arc. Should be easy to have a program convert the cord length to degrees arc. It would be cheeper to make as you could use off-the-shelf components.
John H.
