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From: Jared Sherman (no email)
Date: Thu Aug 05 2004 - 15:29:43 EDT
Jim-
<My hands are full of >
In the perversity of "stuff" I found my $10 Timex was keeping time better
than my good watches. And since I don't like to take my wristwatch on/off,
or fuss with loose stuff, it struck me one day that the watch would fit very
nicely AROUND THE TELESCOPE. Honest. With a stretchy plastic or velcro
strap, you can "wear" it on the telescope, so when you take the sextant away
from your eye and turn it sideways, there's the time. With no sleeves in the
way.<G> Still, that's something out of place.
Then I found something that worked better. I have a $10 digital stopwatch
that's not as accurate on the annual basis. But, if I hack the stopwatch to
any even minute/hour, I can velcro it on the handle on the sextant, so that
the "lap" button is right under my thumb or forefinger. LAP, not start/stop.
The lap timer stops the display without stopping the count, so when I hit
"lap" I've recorded an instant, without taking my eye off the 'scope. Now I
can do what I please, look at the lap time, note it, hit "lap" again to
resume the original count, take another reading, etc.
If I've gotten the stopwatch synched on the hour exactly, the "lap" reading
will be the exact minute/second from that hour, so there's nothing special
needed to read it, just note the hour and the lap time.
$10 stopwatch, 25c worth of velcro...
And no loose "stuff" to fuss with.<G>
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