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Sextant platform for lunars
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2016 Jul 10, 06:46 +0100
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2016 Jul 10, 06:46 +0100
In high latitudes anyway, it can require some contortionism to measure the nearly-horizontal angle between the moon and the other-body. Did anybody ever devise a (possibly gimbled) rest on which a sextant could be mounted for such work?
Geoffrey Kolbe