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Re: Coastal Plotting Sheets
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Mar 18, 07:53 +1100
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Mar 18, 07:53 +1100
Nicolàs wrote:
Ingenious - two instruments designed specifically for this purpose. Wish I had one; it should be much quicker and more efficient than plotting lines from shore features seawards.
Browsing through your collection, in what way does a "1979 Observator geodetic sextant" differ from what I imagine as a 'normal' sextant?
For this purpose a nice instrument was constructed: the protractor or
"station pointer"...
Examples of the instrument can be found on my web-site:
http://www.dehilster.info/instrumenten/stationpointer1/index.html
http://www.dehilster.info/instrumenten/stationpointer2/index.html
Ingenious - two instruments designed specifically for this purpose. Wish I had one; it should be much quicker and more efficient than plotting lines from shore features seawards.
Browsing through your collection, in what way does a "1979 Observator geodetic sextant" differ from what I imagine as a 'normal' sextant?
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