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Re: Star to Star Distances taken on a Second Hand Sextant
From: Michael Bradley
Date: 2019 Dec 4, 14:26 -0800

Alex, you wrote:

"If all your "arc errors" are on the  "low" side, this suggests that perhaps 
index error was not determined
accurately.

Did you check the index error (using the same stars) immediately before or 
after the distance observations?"

Please read the first paragraph of the post again, your answer is in there.

Good navigating

Michael Bradley

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