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Re: "sextant" angle range
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 May 24, 08:10 -0700
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2025 May 24, 08:10 -0700
My SNO-T has arc graduated to 140 degrees, so technically it is almost a "pentant", though everyone calls it a sextant.
My Bubble "sextant" Mark IX A is graduated to 80 degrees.
And my "pocket sextant" by Troughton and Simms has a silver arc graduated to 160, though it is so constructed that the arm moves only to 135. I even took some back sights with it.
