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Re: WWII Sextant
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Feb 21, 09:37 -0500
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2003 Feb 21, 09:37 -0500
Gary, I see you found the Yahoo sextant list, and Jim Dullea answered your question there. Another source of information on dating of Navy sextants might be John Luykx, who has Navtrak Nautical; Cliff Sojurner gave you the link to his web page. He is extremely knowledgeable, and, in fact has written for The Navigation Foundation's newsletter. To start a discussion on this list on why one would want to make sextant observations as accurate as possible, consider if you were in command of a naval vessel 30 years ago in hot pursuit near shore in bad conditions. Wouldn't you be more comfortable if your celestial fixes were as accurate as possible assuming they were the basis for your DR position? The reason I limit this to 30 years ago is that, nowadays, the automated star trackers might be more accurate than humans. Fred
