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Re: Star to Star Distances taken on a Second Hand Sextant
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Dec 8, 06:35 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Dec 8, 06:35 -0800
Peter Monta you wrote: With a bright star on a black background, the mess of faint spikes obscures the core and just kills the precision.
And I thought it was my aging eyesight or my ancient sextant. Thanks, I feel better about it now. DaveP