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Re: Sextant certificate with a graph
From: David C
Date: 2020 Aug 16, 14:32 -0700
From: David C
Date: 2020 Aug 16, 14:32 -0700
I note that the check was made in 1977. What year diid the Admiralty stop testing sextants? And why the Admiralty Compass Observatory?
Maybe I am reading the graph incorrectly but a 6' error at 60° seems massive for a precision instrument. Had the sextant been dropped?
