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Gary J. LaPook wrote:
> Gary LaPook wrote:
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> I use one of those little hand held dictaphones. I put it in my shirt
> pocket, start it recording and then just talk into it with the sextant
> altitude and time.M uch easier than trying to juggle sextant, pencil and
> paper especially if taking many sights. Go below and play it back and
> write down the figures.

I think everyone's experience will be different, but at one point in
learning celestial I took a lot of sights without a helper.

How?  First, I pre-adjusted my sextant to be close to the expected Hs.
Then I looked at my watch and noted time to the second.  Then I simply
started counting one-one hundred, two-two hundred, ... while I adjusted
my sextant to its final reading.  Then noted time and reading in my
notebook.

With this method, you should be able to get a sextant reading within 15
to 20 seconds of starting counting.  I did a few trial runs of simply my
time counting to make sure I wasn't counting too fast or slow.  I
believe that even after 30 seconds I was within one second or less.

I was taking sights from a known position and my readings were no less
accurate than what I got when using a helper on previous expeditions.

Lu Abel

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