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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2011 Feb 14, 18:27 -0500
Are you going anywhere near Los Angeles on your travels?
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--- On Sun, 2/13/11, Bill Morris <engineer@clear.net.nz> wrote:
From: Bill Morris <engineer@clear.net.nz>
Subject: [NavList] A sextant calibrator
To: NavList@fer3.com
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2011, 2:44 PM
I have recently completed an instrument that allows me to calibrate my sextants with relative ease and speed, compared to methods I have used in the past. I have described its construction, calibration and use in a blog post at my web site www.sextantbook.com, in the category "Chasing tenths of an arc minute" though on this occasion, I was chasing seconds. I am not touting for business, as I do not work for gain, but the post may be of interest to those who, like me, are attracted more by the instruments than by the practice of navigation.
However, I plan to practice celestial navigation from the stable platform of a cargo ship when I sail from Auckland to Oakland via Papeete in mid April, en route to Houston. My wife sensibly plans to fly all the way.
Bill Morris
Pukenui
New Zealand
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