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Re: Star to Star Distances taken on a Second Hand Sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2019 Dec 4, 21:13 +0000
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2019 Dec 4, 21:13 +0000
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? Alex.