NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: David Fleming
Date: 2013 Mar 1, 07:13 -0800
Paul,
You are not over thinking the problem of parallax and an artificial horizon mirror.
Your observation of parallax when checking index correction by looking at nearby objects is useful. Best to check parallax with a star, you get a point image to overlap.
The artificial horizon does mean you are looking at an object from two different points even more widely seperated than the horizon mirror and the index mirror and so the parallax problem is worse. If you tried to measure index error by focusing on an airplane thru AH you would see you have a good
method of measuring the distance to the airplane.
However when you observe only celestial objects they will be too far to observe parallax.
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