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From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2011 Oct 26, 12:28 -0400
Sent from my iPad
Randy,
Worked up your eight observations and got the following intercepts from your home position of observation:
0.6 away
0.0
0.7 toward
0.4 toward
1.2 toward
0.4 away
0.6 away
0.8 toward
1.1 awayThis set of intercepts will produce a pin wheel on a standard plotting sheet where the width of a sharp pencil is 0.5 nautical miles. Well done ! Darn good for a Davis sextant. It must be a new one. Don't play with the adjustment screws too much if you can help it.
I'll work up a pair of plots for you so that you can see how the pub 229 reduction looks vs. a calculator reduction.
The perfect shot was Sirius. Can't do any better than that :)
Greg Rudzinski
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