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From: Andrew Corl
Date: 2010 Sep 2, 05:15 -0700
All,
A number of years ago I purchased a Davis Mark III Sextant and artificial horizon. I live in a land locked area. On a few occassions I have dug out the horizon filled it with either water, or vegetable oil, or motor oil and attempted to take a sun sight. My sextant only goes out to 120d so I have to work when the sun is less than 60d above the horizon. After several minutes of walking around attempting to find the sun I gave up and got back to my yard work. So now I going to make another attempt to get this working. I have enclosed attached a diagram showing the general configuration of what I am looking for. My height of eye is 6'2". Is there a way to calculate what x should be on the attached diagram? If so what would the formula be? Since I have a three day weekend I should have a little bit of time to work on this issue. I think once I work it out a couple of times I should be able to just walk up and find the sun fairly easily.
Thanks,
Andrew
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