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Re: Rude Starfinder History
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Jul 15, 23:32 -0700
From: Henry Halboth <NoReply_Halboth@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:06 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Rude Starfinder History
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2014 Jul 15, 23:32 -0700
See my prior posts about the 2102-D version of the star finder:
gl
From: Henry Halboth <NoReply_Halboth@fer3.com>
To: garylapook@pacbell.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:06 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Rude Starfinder History
The Rude Star Finder greatly facilitated the taking of late am and early pm twilight star sights before the stars were visible to the naked eye and while the horizon was clear and distinct by considerably reducing the work of precomputing altitude and azimuth. With a little extra work the navigational planets could also be plotted on the disk and included
in the precomputation. There was no need to visually identify the stars prior to observation.
Henry
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Doug MacPherson <NoReply_MacPherson@fer3.com> wrote:
I Wws using my Rude Starfinder the other day which prompted some questions concerning the ingenious device.Does anyone know who invented it (Rude?) and when?Did it significantly change the way celestial was performed at sea? Were navigators more inclined to observe morning sights vs. evening sights prior to the Rude Starfinder due to the fact that they could identify the constellations prior to morning twighlight?Thanks!Doug
