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    Re: Determing the bearing off a celestial object.
    From: John Brown
    Date: 2015 Apr 1, 09:46 -0700

    Francis

    Glad we share an appreciation of my pelorus as a thing of beauty!  So far I have not been tempted to expose it to the rigours of life in the boat cockpit, so it stays at home on the nostalgia shelf with my C Plath sextant.  However, I have salvaged the base bowl from a Suunto K-12 compass, damaged in heavy weather.  The capsule was cracked but the gimballed bowl is OK.  The diameter of the bowl rim is 100mm, exactly the same as a Helix HO3 circular protractor.  So, with a white perspex disc under the protractor, a shadow pin and a few other bits and pieces, I should be geared up for useful sun azimuths.

    I have ordered Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings for further inspiration.

    Incidentally, I have long been a fan of RAM mounts, which make for secure and flexible mounting of almost anything in a boat.  Pics attached.

    Regards

    John     



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