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Old 07-29-11, 06:12 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by postalbyke View Post
and found values within 1 degree (pretty good for the time errors I introduced by finding then shooting the stars)
A sextant-error during a polaris-shot of 1 degree is a distance-error of 111.2 km (60 nm).
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