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Re: which would you choose?
From: John Simmonds
Date: 1999 Aug 04, 7:44 PM
From: John Simmonds
Date: 1999 Aug 04, 7:44 PM
Not quite true, you can get a fairly good LOP with only a guess as to the time (AM or PM and the date) if your prepared to spend the time and given a moon sight and at least one star. Accuracy dependent on how good your shot's are, but better than a dart :^) Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote: > > Perhaps John's answer is straight because it > oversimplifies. The sextant wo'nt be much help without a > chronometer. If you are choosing to do without electronics, > a mechanical chronometer good enough for navigation will > cost the price of several GPS receivers. >
