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Re: The Rude Star Finder and teaching stars
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Nov 07, 00:43 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2010 Nov 07, 00:43 -0700
On 11/7/2010 12:07 AM, Frank Reed wrote: > One can certainly learn to find the stars without it. On the other > hand, for navigators dropped down in the middle of an unfamiliar ocean > at an unfamiliar time of the year, it sure was useful! It's not hard > to imagine how dramatically important this was in the Pacific War in > the 1940s. Imagine being assigned to a new navigation posting near the > equator in the Pacific when you've never seen anything but the sky > from, let's say, Chicago before. You got that right. The first time I chartered in French Polenesia involved seeing constelations standing upside down compared to how I had seen them from Chicago and I hadn't brought my 2102-D with me. It would have been different had I sailed from the U.S. which would have allowed me to get used to the gradual changes as I sailed south but when you get off the plane in Tahiti it's a done deal and the sky has changed. But eventually you figure it out. Frank, maybe you know the answer to this question. The case for my 2102-D is marked 2101-D, was there a model with that name and what were the differences? gl
