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Re: Winter Sextant Sight Accuracy?
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Jan 10, 8:28 PM
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Jan 10, 8:28 PM
And those 14�C amount to 2/10 mile of difference in position from a sight reduction here, from the sample numbers I just ran at Ho 11�30' and 0�C /vs/ 14�C but a difference of 4/10th mile when Ho is down to 5�30'. So the temperature difference alone can be .2-.4 mile if not factored correctly under winter conditions at 43N on a late afternoon. But not to digress...the basic question was and still is, what kind of position accuracy is anyone else getting with winter sextant sights at lattitudes above 40� ?