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New Use For Sextant
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jun 11, 20:10 -0700
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2002 Jun 11, 20:10 -0700
Last night we had a partial solar eclipse
here in the Seattle Washington area. I wanted to look at the eclipse so I
used my Tamaya Jupiter sextant with a 7X scope and a dark gray filter and a
green filter. Worked great! I had all of my family look through the
sextant to view the eclipse. I then had the idea to put my Kodak digital
camera up to the sextant eyepiece and I took a couple of decent photos!
Any excuse to use my sextants...
;-)
Dan
