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    Re: Sextant Error and Whole Horizon Mirrors
    From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
    Date: 2002 Jul 11, 08:03 -0400

    Bruce,
    Yes please. If you already have them in "soft format" I would appreciate
    having them.
    The weekend is coming up so should have a some time to check this out. I
    used this telescope to take star sights on my Atlantic crossing, but having
    used the normal scope for sun sights, and being used to a normal scope it
    was quite difficult to bring star to horizon. I had to consciously
    countermand what my brain was telling me to do.
    
    My Russian sextant is not WW 1 it is a SNO-T Year 1983  serial no 83376.
    
    Aubrey
    
    At 22:32 10/07/02, you wrote:
    >Aubrey-
    >
    >If you are interested, I'll send along instructions from one of the old
    >manuals explaining how to adjust that inverting 'scope. I think it would be
    >interesting make use of it.
    >
    >Just a wild guess, but I have the notion inverting 'scopes went out of
    >fashion around WW I, shortly after lunar distances were dropped from the
    >Almanac. Seems like those full view horizon mirrors didn't appear until the
    >last half of the twentieth century. Does anyone know?
    >
    >Bruce
    
    
    

       
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