A sextant is a doubly reflecting navigation instrument that measures the angular distance between two visible objects. The primary use of a sextant is...

Look up sextant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sextant may refer to: Sextant (circle), a circular sector equal to one sixth of a circle, or a third...

sextants are devices depicting a sixth of a circle, used primarily for measuring the position of stars. There are two types of astronomical sextants,...

Sextant is the eleventh studio album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 by Columbia. It is the last album with the Mwandishi-era sextet featuring saxophonist...

Westing (By Musket and Sextant) is a compilation of the early EPs and singles by American indie rock band Pavement. It features all the tracks from their...

The Bris sextant /ˈbriːs/ is not a sextant proper, but is a small angle-measuring device that can be used for navigation. The Bris is, however, a true...

with a second hand or digit, an almanac with lunar corrections, and a sextant are used. With no knowledge of time at all, a lunar calculation (given...

The bubble octant and bubble sextant are air navigation instruments. Although an instrument may be called a "bubble sextant", it may actually be a bubble...

equatorial sextant is a modified version of a sextant. One historically significant instrument called by that name was John Flamsteed's equatorial sextant, installed...

The Sextant Formation is a geologic formation in Ontario. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal Ontario portal...

The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant), also known as the First Cairo Conference, was one of 14 summit meetings during World War II, which took place...

for various sextants. A pillar sextant can be either: A double-frame sextant as patented by Edward Troughton in 1788. A surveyor's sextant with a socket...

table of a 2×3 block mosaic matrix of so-called squots (square dots) or sextants. Less often used versions use a 1×6 "matrix", in which case these six "pixels"...

the celestial body is measured with a sextant and the time noted. The Sextant reading is known as the 'Sextant Altitude'. This is corrected by use of...

in the Northern Hemisphere by sighting the pole star (Polaris) with a sextant and using sight reduction tables to correct for height of eye and atmospheric...

central angles are sometimes given special names, such as quadrants (90°), sextants (60°), and octants (45°), which come from the sector being one 4th, 6th...

Bachman's second album, Staring Down the Sun, was released in Canada on Sextant Records in August 2004 and was released in the United States by Artemis...

increased his accuracy by increasing the length of his sextant; the so-called Fakhri sextant had a radius of about 36 meters (118 feet) and the optical...

label Sextant. The album's first single was "Cadillac Dress", released as a download from the band's website. After the album's release, Sextant filed...

5°/hour. The angle between the Moon and a suitable star is measured with a sextant, and (after consulting tables and lengthy calculations) gives a value for...

with the octant and early sextant; the sextant eventually displaced the others, and is still used to this day. The sextant was mentioned by Isaac Newton...

acclaim. She directed Know Thyself (2016), starring Christian Coulson, and Sextant (2016), both of which featured landscape and emotion as themes. Wright's...

decimals of minutes "Astro Navigation Syllabus". Retrieved 4 November 2010. [Sextant errors] are sometimes [given] in seconds of arc, which will need to be...

legible) sextant sights that sharply differ from Byrd's later June 22 typewritten official report to the National Geographic Society. Byrd took a sextant reading...

Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations....

undermined by the 1996 revelation that Byrd's long-hidden diary's solar sextant data (which the NGS never checked) consistently contradict his June 1926...

Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical sextant (for measuring the distance between stars) or Stonehenge (which has some...

2023-12-25. "Periscope Aircraft Sextant | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago". Reichel, Jack. "Perscopic Sextant". ION Navigation Museum. Archived...

1935.0004. Hueber, F.M. (1983). "A new species of Baragwanathia from the Sextant Formation (Emsian) Northern Ontario, Canada". Botanical Journal of the...

make your own kamal, all you need is piece of wood string and help of a sextant or any angle measuring device for the first calibration of your personal...