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    Parts of The Marine Sextant

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    The document describes the key parts of a marine sextant used for celestial navigation: The frame houses the main components and comes in various designs. The limb contains altitude graduations marked in degrees and has teeth along the outer edge. The index arm can pivot and has a tangent screw, micrometer drum, and vernier to precisely measure angles. Other components are the index mirror, horizon glass, shade glass, and telescope used to sight celestial objects.

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    Parts of The Marine Sextant

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    The document describes the key parts of a marine sextant used for celestial navigation: The frame houses the main components and comes in various designs. The limb contains altitude graduations marked in degrees and has teeth along the outer edge. The index arm can pivot and has a tangent screw, micrometer drum, and vernier to precisely measure angles. Other components are the index mirror, horizon glass, shade glass, and telescope used to sight celestial objects.

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    The document describes the key parts of a marine sextant used for celestial navigation: The frame houses the main components and comes in various designs. The limb contains altitude graduations marked in degrees and has teeth along the outer edge. The index arm can pivot and has a tangent screw, micrometer drum, and vernier to precisely measure angles. Other components are the index mirror, horizon glass, shade glass, and telescope used to sight celestial objects.

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    Parts of The Marine Sextant

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    Jo Anthony Capalaran
    The document describes the key parts of a marine sextant used for celestial navigation: The frame houses the main components and comes in various designs. The limb contains altitude graduations marked in degrees and has teeth along the outer edge. The index arm can pivot and has a tangent screw, micrometer drum, and vernier to precisely measure angles. Other components are the index mirror, horizon glass, shade glass, and telescope used to sight celestial objects.

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    CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

    Parts of the Marine Sextant


    Parts of the Sextant

    A. Frame

    a frame comes in A
    various designs, most
    similar to this.

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    Parts of the Sextant

    B. Teeth

    teeth mark the outer


    edge of the limb.
    Each tooth marks one
    degree of altitude.
    B

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    Parts of the Sextant

    C. Altitude graduations

    marks the arc along the


    limb. Some sextants
    C
    have an arc marked in a
    strip of brass, silver, or
    platinum inlaid in the
    limb.
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    Parts of the Sextant

    D. Index Arm
    D
    is a movable bar of the
    same material as the
    frame. It pivots about
    the center of curvature
    of the limb.

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    Parts of the Sextant

    E. Tangent screw

    is mounted
    perpendicularly on the
    E
    end of the index arm,
    where it engages the
    teeth of the limb.

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    Parts of the Sextant

    F. Release

    is a spring-actuated
    clamp that keeps the
    F
    tangent screw engaged
    with the limb’s teeth.

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    Parts of the Sextant

    G. Micrometer drum

    is mounted at the end


    of the tangent screw
    graduated in minutes.

    G
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    H. Vernier

    fixed on the index arm


    next to the micrometer
    drum that reads in
    fractions of a minute.
    H
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    I
    Parts of the Sextant

    I. Index mirror

    is a piece of silvered
    plate glass mounted on
    the index arm,
    perpendicular to the
    plane of the
    instrument.
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    J. Horizon glass J

    is a piece of optical
    glass silvered on its half
    nearer the frame.

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    Parts of the Sextant

    K. Shade glass
    K
    mounted on the
    sextant’s frame in front
    of the index mirror and
    horizon glass with
    varying darkness.

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    Parts of the Sextant L

    L. Telescope

    screws into an
    adjustable collar in line
    with the horizon glass
    and parallel to the
    plane of the
    instrument.
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    CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
    Parts of the Marine Sextant

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