Adjustable errors of the sextant - Determining and correcting the errors
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Adjustable errors of the sextant - Determining and correcting the errors
7 259 просмотров · 7 л. назад
Steering Mariners
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This video explains the adjustable errors of the sextant. The adjustable errors of the sextant can be determined by the user and corrected. The errors are: error of perpendicularity, side error, error of parallelism, and error of collimation.
This video uses animation to explain how these errors may occur in a sextant, how the errors may be determined, and how the errors are corrected.
Separate videos will explain the non-adjustable errors and the index error calculation.
Non-adjustable errors of a sextant: • Non-adjustable errors of the SEXTANT