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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Troughton and Simms
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Jan 12, 10:49 -0800
From: Norm Goldblatt
Date: 2013 Jan 12, 10:49 -0800
I just realized how TRULY wonderful the sextant vernier is. 10 seconds is a very small angle, but it's really more astounding than that. The arm only moves 5 seconds to affect a visual angle change of 10 seconds. Not telling the board anything new it's just that I love it all.
Norm
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