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Is called a sextant and it determines a latitude. It does not measure distance.
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Is called a sextant and it determines a latitude. It does not measure distance.Using a sexton they could calculate this figure.
Is called a sextant and it determines a latitude. It does not measure distance.
From a celestial star not TO a celestial star. Keep reading the c&p you posted (and didn’t cite) so you can learn how it works.If a ship is in a minute of arc this represents a nautical mile and if the semi diameter be 16 miles the diameter is of course 32 miles and as measured by the sextant the suns diameter is 32 minutes of arc that is 32 minutes in diameter.
Nah. The math doesn’t work. I’m an engineer, I know.Measuring with sextants and calculating with plain trigonometry both the sun and the moon figure to be only about 32 miles in diameter and approximately 3,000 miles away.
I’m an engineer, I know.
Ouch. I guess you are down to insults now. Not very Christian.Not a very good one then.
Rude.Not a very good one then.
But it's not 3,000 miles away. it's 93,000,000.Measuring with sextants and calculating with plain trigonometry both the sun and the moon figure to be only about 32 miles in diameter and approximately 3,000 miles away.
Ouch. I guess you are down to insults now. Not very Christian.
But it's not 3,000 miles away. it's 93,000,000.
Oh yes - I went and measured it last week.Can you prove otherwise, without the aid of a text book or some scientist just spouting it ?
Love you anywaySorryplease forgive me, that was very rude of me.
Oh yes - I went and measured it last week.
Can you prove anything you say without YouTube, Dean Odel/Eric Dubay/Rob Skiba?
How did you "prove" it?I just did.
How did you "prove" it?
Which is wrong. That is not what a sextant measures.Info on the sextant.
Which, a) you've been told is wrong, b) I don't believe they were your own words and c) you are so clued up on, you called it a sexton.Info on the sextant.
Which, a) you've been told is wrong, b) I don't believe they were your own words and c) you are so clued up on, you called it a sexton.
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