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Re: Sextant certificates
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2006 Jan 30, 17:33 EST
From: Bruce Stark
Date: 2006 Jan 30, 17:33 EST
I agree that small instrument corrections on the certificate shouldn't be taken too seriously, especially after the sextant has been in use a while. But the Kelvin Hughes Mate I used in the 1970s had corrections varying from 0.'0 to 1.'0. For lunars, those proved worth paying attention to.
Bruce
Bruce