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Old 06-09-2004, 07:37 PM
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Originally posted by narwhal
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I'm learning celestial this summer. My lawschool roomate is a Kings Pointer and has promised to teach me after he gets his sextant back from Baker Lyman.
I've done it with a theodolite, 30 years ago. Used the sun for ... latitude? and a couple of stars (I think Deneb and Arcturus maybe?), a chronometer, and an ephemeris for longitude. We did it on several consecutive nights and days. Anyway, I think that's what we did. I assisted a real surveyor and learned OJT. It was long ago and down north of Barilochi.

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