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Re: What is this?
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2006 May 21, 12:07 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2006 May 21, 12:07 -0700
It does look like a bubble attachment to me and the knob on the left
looks like an adjustment knob for the bubble size.
gl
Greg R. wrote:
gl
Greg R. wrote:
Alex wrote:> What is this?
> It does not look like a bubble horizon to me.And interestingly enough, the Kelvin-Hughes website doesn't seem to have any info on their sextants:Found Links: 0, Search Category: "Entire Site"--GregR----- Original Message -----From: "Alexandre E Eremenko" <eremenko@MATH.PURDUE.EDU>Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:53 AMSubject: What is this?> I hope Nav-L is still alive though it lives its last days:-(
>
> This e-bay listing
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Kelvin-Hughes-Sextant-1956_W0QQitemZ7416573557QQcategoryZ66638QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
> shows a sextant with a strange attachment in front of its
> horizon mirror. The top right picture shows it attached,
> and the bottom left picture shows the attachment itself
> (on the right). What is this?
> It does not look like a bubble horizon to me.
>
> Alex
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