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    Thread: Venus in Daylight My First Time
Post: RE: Venus in Daylight My First Time

PeterB Wrote: (03-21-2022, 05:21 PM) -- March 21 2022 Today is the unofficial first day of spring and it is the first day in many when my local skies have been clear. Venus is visible during the ...
neil_s General Topics Here 2 2,254 03-23-2022, 08:00 PM
    Thread: Sextant - what are these bits for?
Post: RE: Sextant - what are these bits for?

PeterB Wrote: (03-18-2022, 07:53 PM) -- neil_s Wrote: (01-30-2022, 08:32 PM) -- Hi to all - I am new on the site and a relatively new self taught celestial navigator - I've been hooked for about thr...
neil_s General Topics Here 6 5,635 03-22-2022, 07:47 PM
    Thread: Long by chron
Post: RE: Long by chron

Hmmm - a few tries show that the prime vertical thing is only possible for about four months during Summer at my latitude (50 46.8 N). I have however, drawn up a long by chron sight record sheet with ...
neil_s The Sight Reduction process 1 2,522 02-18-2022, 04:57 PM
    Thread: WANTED
Post: RE: WANTED

pabrides Wrote: (02-26-2021, 04:52 AM) -- Hello shipmates, I dont seem to have any opportunity to get star or planet shots I do sun shots all the time with occasional moon shots, but star and p...
neil_s The Sight Reduction process 1 2,128 02-17-2022, 04:56 PM
    Thread: Long by chron
Post: Long by chron

Rumata's post just below got me thinking about theĀ Longitude by chronometer method, where you start with a DR Latitude. Your sun sight allows you to calculate the LHA. The difference between that andĀ ...
neil_s The Sight Reduction process 1 2,522 02-16-2022, 08:29 PM
    Thread: Sextant - what are these bits for?
Post: RE: Sextant - what are these bits for?

Rumata Wrote: (02-02-2022, 06:50 AM) -- neil_s Wrote: (01-30-2022, 08:32 PM) -- Hi to all - I am new on the site and a relatively new self taught celestial navigator - I've been hooked for about thr...
neil_s General Topics Here 6 5,635 02-02-2022, 03:55 PM
    Thread: Sextant - what are these bits for?
Post: Sextant - what are these bits for?

Hi to all - I am new on the site and a relatively new self taught celestial navigator - I've been hooked for about three years, now. There are a couple of things that are bugging me about using a sext...
neil_s General Topics Here 6 5,635 01-30-2022, 08:32 PM
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