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Re: Sextant "side error" and star-star sights
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 5, 16:34 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Dec 5, 16:34 -0500
They are not totally inconsistent. They are always "overshot", larger than the true value. I suspect that this is due to some "arc error", or to some irradiation effect. Or to my inability to determine the index error. Alex. On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Frank Reed wrote: > Hmm. So you're still getting inconsistent results for star-star > sights even > with a little "side error" gap between the two images.