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The first machine that I had for sight reduction was a TI58 and the last
one a casio 730 but to be honest rarely used them, prefering to do the
sight reductions on a bit of paper from the nautical almanac and Hughes
tables. The advantage as far as I was concerned was that it was the way I
was brought up and therefore comfortable with it and more importantly it
was much easier to check the figures as well as detecting an error if a
silly answer came out.

Regarding bringing the sun down, I am surprised that someone was taught to
bring the sextant down for a sunshot (i.e. setting the sextant to zero,
aiming at the sun then rotating the sextant about the index arm to the
horizon) because of the glare. It is a good technique for faint bodies
(particularly Polaris) but does need practice.

NG

   

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