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Re: Towards a basis for Bruce Stark's Tables
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2003 Jan 3, 16:55 -0500
From: Vic Fraenckel
Date: 2003 Jan 3, 16:55 -0500
| David Burch in the Starpath Celestial Navigation course has an article
about
| using a mirror as an artificial horizon for night shots. He suggested
using ...
Some years ago I experimented with used Motor Oil (very black) in a pan as
an artificial horizon with some success. A little messy perhaps, but quite a
bit less toxic than mercury (and cheaper). I just leveled the pan and the
oil surface took care of leveling itself :>)
HTH
Vic
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