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    Re: The ultimate celestial navigation time piece
    From: Greg Rudzinski
    Date: 2017 Feb 25, 07:14 -0800

    Tony,

    See this stopwatch holder for mounting on a custom sextant grip.

    http://xks.com/i-10072333-dashboard-mount-stopwatch-holder-17-7500.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiA88TFBRDYrOPKuvfY2pIBEiQA97Z8MWOxkUMx5Qv2oOTlErrDN6J6incxvMEAFapYzmC_k7QaAiQb8P8HAQ

    Split stopwatches will cost you :( I use a basic Wakmann and am happy with it.

    Greg Rudzinski

    From: Tony Oz
    Date: 2017 Feb 23, 14:36 -0800

    As Frank has correctly guessed about me being a technophobe (to some extent) - I'm trying to avoid everything electric/electronic/modern. More so - in the field of Emergency Navigation.

    I'm modelling a replacement handle - a grip rather - for my sextant. This grip is thought to be a thick roundish plastic board (approx the size of ping-pong bat) with holes for all five fingers separated around the central area, where a split-system stop-watch (mechanical, of course!) will sit - face to the palm. An index finger will be aligned at the split/resume button.

    I intend to do it like this:

    • with some reference watch I am to start the stop-watch at a full minute of UTC;
    • to write down that time in a log-book;
    • to shoot a sight and press the split/resume button freesing one of the stop-watch arms - to be able to write down the stop-watch readings without any hurry - along with the sextant's reading;
    • having the angle and time interval readings properly recorded - to press the split/resume button again (preparing the stop-watch for the next sight) and proceed with the sighting as described in the previous step;
    • when finished with all the sights - to use the reference watch to stop the stop-watch on some full minute of UTC;
    • to write down that reference watch readings;
    • to use the recorded stop-watch intervals to place the sextant readings on the UTC time-scale accordingly.

    I guess this is how it is/was done by serious navigators.

    The only question remains - where a techophobe gets a reliable mechanical "reference watch" (for little money, I mean)?

       
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