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Re: Spanish celestial navigation
From: Chuck Varney
Date: 2024 Apr 2, 15:20 -0700
From: Chuck Varney
Date: 2024 Apr 2, 15:20 -0700
Frank Reed, you wrote:
"There's also a sextant on the "first day cover" for that first stamp (below), but that sextant has a little curious feature about it. See it?"
For me, that 'curious feature' is what I perceive to be a gross misplacement of the index mirror--no portion of which lies above the index arm pivot point.
In the attached image, the white rectangle outlines a portion of what I take to be the index mirror. Parts of the index arm are shown in red.
Chuck V
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