Thanks for the swift replies.
Can you tell me how fine a sighting is possible with one of these? I've seen many that can't do better than 15' though maybe there is a trick I don't know about.
Not that I think I'll wind up with a transit of my own very soon but things have a way of turning up at a flea market or garage sale at just the right moment on occasion.
My general interest is in the old N.African desert explorers of the '20s and '30s. Bagnold, Almasy et al and going into the desert navigation of WWII and of course that thrill of locating my place here by points of light out there.
Can you tell me how fine a sighting is possible with one of these? I've seen many that can't do better than 15' though maybe there is a trick I don't know about.
Not that I think I'll wind up with a transit of my own very soon but things have a way of turning up at a flea market or garage sale at just the right moment on occasion.
My general interest is in the old N.African desert explorers of the '20s and '30s. Bagnold, Almasy et al and going into the desert navigation of WWII and of course that thrill of locating my place here by points of light out there.
I used to be a normal person, then I discovered how to locate myself on this planet using a star.