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Re: Freiberger sextant
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Aug 13, 17:40 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 Aug 13, 17:40 -0400
Geremy, Your photos cannot be seen. Neither the sextant nor the ship. The error message: "Page not found". > There is also no maginifier for Magnifier/illuminator seems to be one of the many unique features of SNO. I don't know any other sextant (except SNO-T and SNO-M) with a drum/wormscrew AND a magnifier. > The sextants I prefer (C&P and Tamaya) have vernier scale of 0.1 and 0.2 > respectively on the micrometer drum. Some C Plath's of 1950 also have 1' drum and no vernier. An opinion was expressed in this list that vernier is useless on a 1' drum of a modern sextant. I agree. except for the Lunars. > I am linking a photo of the drum. What would you say that it reads? Sorry, I did not get the photo. Alex.
