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Re: Sextant accuracy (was : Plumb-line horizon vs. geocentric horizon)
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 13, 13:14 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2005 Feb 13, 13:14 -0500
Another similar exercise (and simpler one!) would be to draw a map of sun spots as seen through your sextant. I alcually have never seen sun sports "alive" before I bought a sextant:-) >a fun way to learn the lunar landscape and an interesting test of the >eye's I've heard of some of these stories before, but I'm somewhat >skeptical. With > resolution. and: >so many more people alive today, it's always more likely >that the extremes >of the human condition are alive today than in centuries past. Sure. And probably there are many such cases. My information is out of date, of course. A