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Re: Octant as dipmeter
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 20, 10:28 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 20, 10:28 -0500
George, By the way, can you post or send me a picture of your self-made dipmeter? And one more question: which model of plastic sextant do you use and what sort of precision you obtain with it, say for altiutude sights in perfect conditions? Alex. >A pair of mirrors, rigidly mounted, will do the same >job, and that's what I've used for my own version of > the Blish dipmeter, >because it's lighter and cheaper than a glass prism. It fits to my >plastic >sextant.