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    Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
    From: Bill B
    Date: 2015 Apr 01, 14:33 -0400

    On 3/31/2015 2:26 PM, Francis Upchurch wrote:
    > Beautiful pelorus! Wish I could find one at a reasonable price. For
    > those who  cannot afford the usual price for these beauties, (me
    > included), you can build one for virtually nothing using plans from
    > Dennis Fisher's book, Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings
    
    OLD plans from Popular Mechanics.
    
    http://books.google.com/books?id=FtcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA115&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
    
    When time permits, I hope to marry a kludged version with Fisher's plans
    for a gimbaled unit, using the Helix "2 in 1 Protractor and Compass"
    which has a rotating inner disk. (Helix #36002, Hobby Lobby, $3.95)
    
    

       
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