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Low-Altitude Astro Sights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

P. L. Nightingale
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On 13 flights at different heights and outside air temperatures a total of 127 low-altitude sights were taken of the Sun, Moon and planets. The sights were taken with a Kollsman periscopic sextant which uses an illuminated graticule as a datum. Hughes' Tables were used for the calculations and the corrections for refraction taken from the table published in Navigation.

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1954, pp. 84 - 88
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1954

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