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Subject: RE: [Nml] Sunset sight?
From: Russell Sher (rsher@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Oct 30 1998 - 02:28:24 EST
Mike Harris in his book Navigation by Pocket Computer suggests this. I'm not
sure of the accuracy though - you have to allow for a low altitude
refraction I guess.
Russell
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Edwards [SMTP:richard@XXX.XXX]
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 3:08 AM
> To: navigation@XXX.XXX
> Subject: [Nml] Sunset sight?
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> Would it be possible to find position (or at least longitutde), without a
> sextant by marking the time at sunset and going to the tables with 0
> degrees as
> the altitude?
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