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Sun lower limb - sextant altitude 29 535 at 12h 23m 45s UT. Bring the two stars into coincidence either to the left or the right of the field of view.
If we need to draw this position circle we need to draw this from the geographical position of the celestial body.
How to draw a sextant. Clamp the index arm in place with the flip-lock then turn the micrometer knob to fine-tune the sextant so the object is perfectly aligned with the horizon. Record the time you made your sighting in hours minutes and seconds then record the angle measure which you can find on the index bar and correct for your elevation if necessary. Draw an imaginary line between the two brightest stars in Centaurus then another line bisecting it.
The point where the bisecting line crosses a line drawn through Crux is the southern pole. Think of a sextant with a normal vernier to read the minutes of arc at the bottom of the index arm. Now cut gear teeth along the bottom of the arc of the sextant and add a threaded wheel like a worm wheel perpendicular to the teeth.
This is the micrometer section of the name. You could then plot a line of position on your chart by drawing a ring 49m away from the lighthouse. Measuring the angular distance between two charted objects to obtain a line of position.
A Horizontal Sextant Angle is used to measure the horizontal angular distance between two charted objects so that you can plot a line of position on a chart. Sight the horizon by looking through the horizon mirror then move the sextants index arm until the object youre trying to find is also visible on the horizon. Clamp the index arm in place with the flip-lock then turn the micrometer knob to fine-tune the sextant so the object is perfectly aligned with the horizon.
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If we need to draw this position circle we need to draw this from the geographical position of the celestial body. So if we draw a circle of 2400 Miles 40 deg x 60 miles from suns geographical position our position will be somewhere on that circle. Ideally we would have got the position circle with this distance.
The sextant is part of a family of instruments with similar design and look and use. It is basically called a sextant because of the angle of the arc which is 60o and one sixth in latin is sextns. Whereas the octant is at 45o and that is one eighth of a circle also the quintant and the quadrant are one fifth and one quarter or 72o and 90o.
Remember that the angle we measured with our sextant along with the Sun Almanac will give us the information required to draw a position circle around the ground position of the sun and we are somewhere on that circle. However that circle is likely to be really large so we need to narrow it. You can use the mnemonic Ho-Mo-To if the Ho your corrected sextant angle is Mo re than the computed angle from the sight reduction tables then the position line is drawn To wards the sun or celestial body.
If it is less than then it is drawn away from the celestial body. Answer 1 of 5. You can use a sextant on land and make it work.
Years ago I did own a sextant and taught myself how to use it. I lived in the US Midwest and observed the reflection of the navigational body like the North Star in the small bowl of water I. Bring the two stars into coincidence either to the left or the right of the field of view.
Move the sextant slightly so that the stars move to the other side of the field of view. If they separate there is collimation error. As modern sextants rarely use adjustable telescopes they do not need to be corrected for collimation error.
Sextant sight correction sequence Overview. The reading from the sextant Hs needs to be corrected for index error height of eye and the main sun correction to give Ho the observed altitude. Start with Hs the angle that you read off of your sextant.
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Many sextants have an option of either the traditional half-silvered horizon mirror or what is called a whole horizon mirror. With the traditional mirror the horizon glass is divided vertically into two halves producing a split image. A draw back to this system is a very slight reduction in light transmission and reflection which may.
Selecting a Marine Sextant. The first choice to make is between plastic or metal construction. Todays low cost metal sextants offer high accuracy and ease of use.
These reward the beginners efforts and satisfy the professionals demands. Plastic models are perfect for lifeboat provisioningand for restricted budgets. When we open Excel Excel automatically selects Corrections to a sextant obser.
The name of the worksheet appears on its sheet tab at the bottom of our document window Example. On January 17th 2016 a Deck Officer takes and records the following sight. Sun lower limb - sextant altitude 29 535 at 12h 23m 45s UT.
The traditional way is to use a sextant which measures angles accurately. But in an emergency a simple yardstick may be used to measure the length of the suns shadow. To plot a line of position LOP take these steps.
Using the analemma shown here mark the suns position for the desired time of the LOP. Position on a chart drawing a line in the direction of the body and marking off the difference between the observed and calculated distances. The observed distance is known as the True Zenith Distance TZD.
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I make videos step by step f. Draw bearing AB CB DB through observed object towards the sea. Through B draw EF perpendicular to BC.
Mark off EB BF distance run between bearings or time or their ratio using a suitable scale on their respective sides. Through F E draw. On Amazon and on EBay sextants are listed from roughly 30 or 40 dollars to one or two thousand for antiques.
There are many available from many makers. I saw one listed for a little over 18 dollars but it appears to be purely decorative and not useful as an instrument.