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Re: Newbie question on recently acquired sextant.
From: Glendon
Date: 2003 Oct 16, 06:46 +1000
From: Glendon
Date: 2003 Oct 16, 06:46 +1000
Hi James, I think my reply to your original post some days ago was lost by my ISP. Here it is again, below. Since my post there have been a few more posts suggesting greater interchangeability of telescopes than I would have expected. Lee Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawkins, James"To: Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:56 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question on recently acquired sextant > Thanks Frederico. That would be great. My email address is > james.dawkins@tsb.gc.ca. Do you know if smaller telescope are available? > Perhaps a Freiberger would make a direct replacement. Thanks in > advance. > > > James Dawkins Welcome to the list James. There has been a fair bit of discussion of Soviet sextants over the last few weeks.....just search the archives since about the beginning of this month. Our web page is at www.wa6pby.com and that tells you how to get to the archives. In passing, I doubt very much whether anything from Freiberger would fit your sextant and I think that possibly the cost of a telescope from Freiberger would be more than you would pay for a complete SNO-T on Ebay. Lee Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawkins, James" To: Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:16 AM Subject: Newbie question on recently acquired sextant. > Hello all, > I was referred here from another site with my question. I have > recently purchased a sextant and have begun to teach myself celestial > nav. I was looking for information on Russian SNO-T (circa 1974) > sextants. This one has a most powerful scope but the image is reversed. > There are four crosshairs forming a square in the center. Any > information about this sextant would be greatly appreciated. Thank you > in advance. > > James Dawkins > Programmer / Analyst > Transportation Safety Board > Email: james.dawkins@tsb.gc.ca > Tel No: (819) 994-8033 > Fax No: (819) 994-6758