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From: Bruce Stark (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 12:57:17 EDT
Courtney,
If you are already skilled with a sextant, then the inverting scope may be
all you'll need. But at least buy a sight tube. One made to fit a Tamaya will
fit the CHO-T, and I'm guessing it will fit your CHO-M. That inverting scope
must be something like seven power, and the greater the power, the faster the
things you're trying to bring together jitter around. On a small boat, in
anything but ideal conditions, you'll probably find you do better with a sight tube
than with a powerful scope.
If you are just starting to learn to use a sextant, leave the inverting scope
in the box until everything else is second nature.
The "rough contact" I was talking about has to do with what you see in the
horizon glass, or mirror. You want the two things you're measuring the angle
between to appear there. This is easier to get with the scope off. Then, with the
scope on, you can perfect the contact between them.
Bruce
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