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Re: What is better 5 times 3 or 3 times 5 sights?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2022 Oct 10, 12:15 -0700
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2022 Oct 10, 12:15 -0700
Mary Blewitt's excellent little book "Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen" gives a neat solution, which is to bisect two nearly parallel position lines to create one position line. In this way, a confusion of position lines (suggested collective noun) can be reduced to a managable set.
