NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: SNOT at large angles
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 1, 09:51 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 1, 09:51 -0500
Dear Frank, Are there any sextant experts in Chicago, to whom I could show my sextant to collimate and determine the arc non-uniformity error? I just don't want to send it by mail again, but Chicago is the place I can easily come to. Alex. On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Frank Reed wrote: > Alex E wrote: > "ERD 0.5 0.3' 0.3' 0.3' 0.3 > It look like my sextant has some arc distortion at large arcs. > I am going to make a table of it using star-to-star distances." > > There may be other issues, too. > Such large angles are difficult to observe > for a variety of reasons from shaky hands > to telescope collimation. If there > *is* arc error, once it's measured, > it's easy to correct for, of course. > > Frank R > [ ] Mystic, Connecticut > [X] Chicago, Illinois