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Hi All,
      Does anyone know of a service that would check the certification
of a sextant and supply me with a new calibration card? How much would
this cost? Is it silly to do this on a instrument from 1982? The cert that
came with it originally said: "no errors for practical navigation" but down in
the lower right corner it said "RES: 0.02" which I would take to be a
resolution of 0.02 of a degree i.e.; a little over a minuet of arc (0.016666)
But I have seen certs on sextants showing errors in arc seconds. In practical
terms how important is this?
Thanks,
       ~Greg


On 12/26/2013 03:55 PM, Greg wrote:
> Hi all,
>   forgive the bandwidth but is anyone here familiar with a sextant
> sold as the "Luna Sextant"
> by the apparently now defunct "Luna Trading Company, Matairie LA" I
> just bought it last week
> off of ebay from a guy in Georgia. The sextant appears in to be
> pristine condition no wear on
> the worm or the scale gear. I saw another one being sold by a
> Salvation Army group in Texas,
> but it was bid up too high for me. This one cost me $425. we have not
> had any clear view of
> the sky due to clouds to try a 'real' sight, then the holiday, but
> initial puttering with it shows that
> I can set the IE to zero, and if I sight on a distant house etc, and
> take a altitude, then return to
> 0 degrees the IE is still zero - (unlike my plastic Davis sextant).
> The seller threw in a book he had
> got with it called "Celestial Navigation" (C) 1989 by Tom Cunliffe The
> book has the previous
> owners name, FL address, and phone number but the phone is
> disconnected and I think this
> might have been purchased at an estate sale for speculation (?) Any
> Idea how good or bad this
> instrument is, and what I should expect for accuracy (on land for the
> moment)?
> Many thanks in advance,
> ~Greg
> 'Svenska Flicka'
>   Cat 28 #467
>

   

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