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Greg,

For a mud puddle that's pretty good. Expect to do better than 1' when using a wind shielded artificial horizon on land. Check index error carefully every time the sextant comes out of the box or gets knocked hard.

Greg Rudzinski

What should I expect for a land based sight accuracy
From: Greg Licfi
Date: 2014 Jan 09, 18:07 -0500
Hi All,
I finally got to give my 'Luna' sextant a trial run. When I bought it off ebay
Frank suggested that the Luna is a early model Astra (pre Celstere) and should
be pretty good the pan I was using for my AH had a leak so I wound up using
a mud puddle and no wind screen - I had some minor ripple issues but I finally
got a stable image and took a few sights the first one was 'away 3.5 nm',
the second yielded 'away 2.2 nm' , it was getting to be time to walk the dog so
I squeezed in one more sight , this one was 'away 1.2 nm' I have not taken a sextant
sight in a few years so I'm assuming it will keep improving with practice - up to a point.
Any and all thoughts / comments are welcome. Thanks.
~Greg

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