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From: Fred Hebard (no email)
Date: Tue May 24 2005 - 21:54:56 EDT
I was hoping to be able to write up my visit with Alex, which
occurred right as he was leaving for Europe, and also at a busy time
for me. The SNO-T had excellent optics, in my opinion. I also liked
the light weight, at Alex mentions.
We were taking artificial horizon sights of the sun from Alex's
famous shaky porch, and a large bulldozer leveling ground nearby was
shaking the porch enough that it was hard to find a moment when the
images weren't quivering. I don't know whether it the vibrations
from the bulldozer were being transmitted through the ground or
through the air from its noisy exhaust. Alex's apartment is built on
fill on or near a swamp, so the ground may be quite easily vibrated.
Between the bulldozer and being rushed for time, I wouldn't put much
stock in our observations for accuracy, but we got to handle each
other's instruments.
I'm really glad Alex has found a place that will calibrate sextants!
And also glad that he can now trust the accuracy of his.
Fred Hebard
On May 24, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Alexandre Eremenko wrote:
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> I recently had an opportunity to try the brass sextants
> of Fred (CP and a small Husun/Mate). I found them extremelly heavy:-)
> My hand was tired.
> And Fred said he liked my aluminium SNO-T, because of its lightness.
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