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Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
From: Stephen N.G. Davies
Date: 2015 Mar 29, 07:35 +0800
From: Stephen N.G. Davies
Date: 2015 Mar 29, 07:35 +0800
The requirement is normally for when one is planning one's evening/morning sights so one knows where to look and, with an expected altitude, where in the sky. I used to use a star globe and, later, the Weems and Plath Starfinder. The azimuth wasn't super precise (except in terms of an assumed position), but good enough.
Stephen D
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In some books you read determ the bearing off a celestial object.
How can you do that reliable?
Is there a special compass or so for this purpose?
With a normal magnetic bearing compass you can look only a few degrees upwards
before the compassrose stalls.A compass with pelorus may works perhaps, but who has that, with a free sight
around a yacht?So who has the solution for this?
regards
HermanD
