Re: get out and practice
Subject: Re: get out and practice
From: Cliff Sojourner (cls@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 20:48:09 EDT
Peter Fogg exhorting us to get out and practice:
...
> Try it - often (the good weather is returning to the northern hemishere)
> and let us all know your results.
lately I have been using my Astra IIIB. I have tuned up the mirrors so
there is no error. I can take sights with it well enough if I get to the
coast or SF Bay. but in my backyard here in Sunnyvale (California) I have
been using the bubble horizon. the bubble is "sticky" - some times it
doesn't move even though the sextant is rotating up or down - but I have
learned to use it and get sun sights within 5' consistently.
experience and "feel" is key here. when I get a good sight it just feels
right, and the error of the reduced sights usually match. I won't try
plotting my feelings...
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these are the good old days
Cliff Sojourner cls@XXX.XXX
