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Outstanding news on your C+P Fred.I also was looking at the moon's cresant
and Venus for some time last evening.Beautiful wasn't it.Simply stunning at
least from where I was.
Is the horizon mirror(and index mirror for that matter)on your Huson the old
style small mirrors?I'm not familiar with these old British sextants and am
just curious.What year was it manufactured?Is it a vernier or tangent screw
type?How "good" are the optics compared with others?Does it have the collar
that the tube screws into(as in the old David White Mk.IIIs)or does the
optic assembly fit into a screw on the frame?
Just curious.

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[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM]On Behalf Of Fred Hebard
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 20:03
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject: Re: Sextants and Glue [was Sisteco Prismatic Compass]


Well, the old C+P I got might be an OK instrument!  I took two sights
tonight, of Jupiter & Sirius and Ho-Hc for three replications of each
was 0.042896+/-0.308899, and -0.07455+/-0.212369, where the error
figure is the square root of the mean of (Ho-Hc) squared; since Hc is a
parametric mean, the degrees of freedom should equal the number of
replications.  I've never gotten so close previously, although the
standard deviations leave a bit to be desired.  Ten to thirty more
shots and I might get a fair idea of how good this sextant is.

I was driving west and north for a few hundred miles this evening and
the new moon was hanging about 15-20 degrees underneath Venus.  It was
perfectly clear and still and would have been a beautiful lunar, easy
to shoot.   Of course when I got home, the low western sky had clouded
over.

I have a fair amount of data for my Husun now, which I may get a chance
to share with the list.  It appears to need about 25 seconds of arc
added to the existing corrections, although there's some additional
periodicity in the errors which I don't know how to handle, having
never fit such data.  I still need to get a chance to fool around a bit
with the data first.  It would help also if I broke down and got the
Husun's horizon mirror resilvered.

   

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