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Index correction should be checked, using the horizon or more preferably a star, each time the sextant is used.
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Sectors with other central angles are sometimes given special names, these include quadrants (90), sextants (60) and octants (45).
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As the developments in dividing engines progressed, the sextant was more accurate and could be made smaller.
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In 1896, he invented the bubble sextant for use in celestial navigation.
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There were 189 people in six boats, each of which had a compass, but there was only one sextant among them.
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The second had essentially the same form as the modern sextant.
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When up on deck, he actually uses a makeshift sextant to get the ship's latitude.
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Originally navigators used an astrodome and regular sextant but the more streamlined periscopic sextant was used from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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If the sextant is permanently fixed in position, only the position of the alidade or similar index need be determined.
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The third crewman station had the sextant for celestial navigation and the defensive electronic counter measures equipment.
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