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C&P bubble sextant - practical issues
From: Igor S.
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 06:39 -0700
From: Igor S.
Date: 2019 Jun 13, 06:39 -0700
Hello everyone,
I was very happy to borrow C&P sextant with bubble professional horizon (see picture below). After eliminating side error and reducing index error till1' I was trying to "catch a star" together with bubble in the crosshairs but found it very difficult. Perhaps I need a solid support for hands and more experience ...
I have further several questions:
1) Is anyone here who can share his practical experience with this type of sextant on land or at sea ?
2) Is it suitable to do lunars from the backyard ?
3) I could not found manual or technical description of this particular bubble horizon attachment on internet. Does it exist ?
kind regards,
Igor
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