sextant

So it's a bit like a sextant almost in a way.

Records, but Sextant took his sound to a new level.

"But in lower school I did learn how to use a sextant."

How are they able to see the sextant from all that way up there?

The second had essentially the same form as the modern sextant.

The sextant is gone now, but perhaps it's in the hands of a serious collector.

In addition to these types, there are terms used for various sextants.

He was required to take sun sights with a sextant.

Aircraft sextants are now out of production, but had special features.

She again fixed the sextant of her eye on the horizon.

After some time, he handed his sextant to the master and sat down to work out our position.

He filmed the trip on a 35-millimeter camera that looked more like a sextant.

Then I took the sextant, worked out the index error, and shot the sun.

"I've done the last three shots on the sextant," he said.

Say, is that the sextant you told me about?

These are small sextants entirely contained within a metal case.

As a result, Campbell recommended the construction of the sextant.

This article is about the Sextant as used for astrometry.

There were only two sextants on board besides my own and I got hold of those before we sailed.

The sextant, however, correlated with sun and stars is not unknown to them.

John Bird made the first such sextant in 1757.

It's got a beautiful sextant in a polished wooden box, for example.

Still, the sextant was an object of both reverence and utility.

I should see the tall, green slopes of an island, if my sextant is correct.

Each pass through my sextant took longer as the search pattern widened.