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Re: SNO-T sextant Galilean telescope
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2023 Jan 17, 22:05 +0000
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2023 Jan 17, 22:05 +0000
Modris, you wrote: > The table of corections from Certificate of mine SNO-T can be seen in the attached image. But I have not tested the instument yet. It will be very interesting to see > how much these data may be relied on. But 10 seconds for all angles with 5 degrees step is obvious cheating; maybe worker had after NewYear party hangover J As Frank once wrote on this list: "I bet that nobody will be able to correct the numbers in a certificate by ordinary observations." Corrections that your certificate shows are too small to check them by ordinary methods, like star-to-star distances. Alex.