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Re: SNO-M sextant manual
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2014 Oct 08, 21:22 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2014 Oct 08, 21:22 -0700
Is it vital to have the manufacturer's manual for a sextant? I thought sextants were relatively generic items, like slide rules. Some of my slide rules have manuals, some don't.If you know how to use one, you can can use them all. I studied the manual for my Astra when it arrived, but haven't looked at it since. As far as I remember, it didn't say anything you couldn't find in any good book on celestial navigation, or figure out by examining the sextant.