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This is one of two messages that I sent to the list last Monday which
seem not to have gone through. At least, they have not appeared in my
inbox, despite ListServ being configured to send me copies of my own
messages:

On Monday, I wrote:


Peter,

As I noted in my last, I have never tried taking a sight under the sorts
of conditions that we are discussing, so it is all theory to me.
However, the irradiation effect is obvious enough in other
circumstances. Its ability to raise a false horizon above the real one
is described in at least one usually-authoritative text: Bauer deals
with it at some length on pp.111-114 of "The Sextant Handbook" (2nd
edition).

Trevor Kenchington


You wrote:

 > Have never noticed a false horizon ABOVE  the real horizon. But
presumably I
 > wouldn't?


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