NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Kevin Coulombe
Date: 2012 Oct 23, 06:07 -0700
BODY: SUN
23OCT2012
WATCH TIME: 085242 LT
ZD: +4
WATCH ERROR: 5S FAST
SEXTANT
FPM DRUM SEXTANT / AP MOLLER COMPANY ISSUE / CURRENT BRIDGE EQUIPMENT
4X40 MONOCULAR
RESIDUAL ERRORS +5” AT 20 DEGREES
INDEX ERROR 0.8 OFF THE ARC
SEXTANT ALTITUDE 23-30.3
HEIGHT OF EYE 30 METERS
BAROMETER 1010
AIR TEMP 15C
DR
L 4156 N
Lo 05933 W
Note: The ship is proceeding along a great circle so the gyro heading is updated hourly. This complicates and induces an error in a running fix of more than a couple of hours.
Best Regards-
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