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Sextant certificates (fwd)
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 May 4, 13:05 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 May 4, 13:05 -0400
I accidentally posted this on the experimental list instead of posting this on the Main list as I intended: Here are two certificates issued in the same year on the same CPlath sextant, one by C. Plath, another by Kelvin and Hughes. http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/cert1.jpg http://www.math.purdue.edu/~eremenko/cert2.jpg I don't know what was the story behind this, and why did the owner do this. (Maybe he dropped his sextant on the floor in fall 1955:-) I also have two certificates for my SNO-T, issued with 1 month interval, one by Freiberger, another by C+P, and I guarantee that I did not drop my sextant on the floor in between:-) and even did not sail with it. What C+P certificate says you can guess, and Freiberger shows max arc error 0.2'. I also have quite strong evidence (from my own star observations) that both my certificates are a balooney. Alex --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To from this group, send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---