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Re: Sextant accuracy and possibility of future improvement
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2016 Jul 25, 07:33 +0100
From: Bill Lionheart
Date: 2016 Jul 25, 07:33 +0100
> It may be that the day will come when having a suitable augmented reality > display on your smartphone screen, and the ability to snap pictures which > include that AR data, will make a cellphone's inclinometer a poor-man's > sextant...but that day is not yet here. > My sextant is a fairly nice Tamaya costing £350. My new Samsung Galaxy S7 cost more. So maybe its a rich man's poor sextant? Bill
