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Re: Old style lunar (in expert hands)
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 22:20 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2004 Dec 10, 22:20 -0500
On Dec 24, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Kieran Kelly wrote: > Its only disadvantage on land is that it is somewhat larger and > heavier than a sextant. > > "Precisely. A theodolite with hardwood tripod legs weighs about 4x > times as > much as a sextant. Eg I own a Wild T1a theodolite. The combined weight > of > instrument, carrying case and tripod is 12 kgs. The Zeiss Yachtsman > sextant > and case which I use on expeditions weighs 2.8kgs. > A Wild T1 might only weigh 12 kilograms, but the ones used in the 1840s for the Survey of India were more on the order of 120 kilograms. Fred