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Re: SNO sextants
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 20:20 -0500
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 2004 Nov 11, 20:20 -0500
Thank you for your reply. I have an M and a T but other than the fact that the M came only with an inverting scope, and one is green and the other grey, technically I was curious if there's a significant functional difference. Cordially, Courtney Alexandre Eremenko wrote: > I don't know what M stands for. > Maybe I would guess if I could see its official > manual in Russian. > It was non-trivial to guess from my manual > what T stands for, and I am not 100% sure but only 98.5% > sure:-) > > (A wild guess based on my knowledge of Soviet abbreviations > would be that M could stand for "modified". This would > be a very typical Soviet usage. > They had SN first, then added illumination and called > it SNO, then added something else and called SNO-M. > But this is only a guess. I have seen an SN sextant but > never an SNO sextant. There was also an SP sextant, > and an SN-U sextant which look undistinguisheable from > SNO-M:-) > > But the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M > is large. SNO-M looks like a 1940-s model of C. Plath, > while SNO-T looks like a Freiberger. > > Maybe all this was done intentionally "to confuse the enemy" > :-) > > > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > >>What's the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M ? >> > >>If the T stands for Tropical, what does the M stand for, Marine ? >> > -- s/v Mutiny Rhodes Bounty II lying Oriental, NC WDB5619