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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2011 Oct 26, 20:40 -0700
Patrick, you wrote:
"I wonder how accurate it is and how much easier it is to use than a regular sextant/almanac/tables (not to mention a sextant and a scientific calculator."
It's probably very easy to use, but this is not in the same category as a sextant. The accuracy is likely on the order of half a degree. Think "astrolabe". In fact, it even resembles an astrolabe. :) I didn't read all of the documentation, but did the inventors or the manufacturers ever call it a "sextant"? Or is that just a modern labeling?
-FER
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