NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: SNO sextants
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 23:33 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 23:33 -0500
Dear Cortney, Yes, I would be very interested in seeing SNO-M manual. (SNO-T I have). In Russian. In exchange I will translate for you whatever you want to know from it. If you could photocopy and mail/fax it to me whatever is more convenient for you. My address and fax number is in the next off-the-list message. On your other comments: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Courtney Thomas wrote: > I just drove [North to South] through Indiana last week. > Man, that state > is really flat ! Not everywhere:-) We even have few waterfalls:-) Illinois is much flatter, not mentioning Florida:-) > Now I know how you're getting those > outstanding sextant readings :-) I am using art horizon anyway:-) > As to SNO-M usage, I have only the inverting scope, > so have been saving > all your postings on the use of such; > but, have only tried the short > scope on the SNO-T, so far. From the pictures I saw I conclude that both scopes would fit both sextants, is this correct? After many trials, I find the inverting scope superior, for all tasks, but I only practiced on land. Alex. P.S. BTW, I dound and re-read some old messages on SNO. The people who seem to know more about their history, manufacturing and differences are Doug Royer and Lee Martin. It was Lee Martin who mentioned plundering the Freiberger factory, and even gave the precise date: May 8 1945. Mon Oct 06 2003 - 19:05:27 EDT. I'd like to know more about this if they can tell us. A.