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Re: Using the sun's direct and reflected image to determine a sextant's IE
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Mar 9, 10:21 -0700
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2020 Mar 9, 10:21 -0700
Ed,
The Bowditch glossary staes index correction as the correction due to index error and index error as difference between arc scale zero (micrometer reading ?) and index mark zero. I interpret this as minutes off or on arc as index error and index correction as the value to apply to the observed reading on the micrometer drum.
Greg Rudzinski
