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Re: Practice CN on cruise ship
From: Bruce Cutting
Date: 2017 Oct 23, 20:44 -0600
From: Bruce Cutting
Date: 2017 Oct 23, 20:44 -0600
Norm - I may have missed it, but observing sun set and sunrise are opportunities to get a LOP without a sextant - all you need is a good watch, and an approximate DR. A compass is helpful but not necessary. You can use your sextant for the observation but do not need to measure altitude (HS) - it is (obviously) zero. Note that HO will be negative. Cheers! > Thanks all for your sage advice. Can't wait for our trip to commence.
