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    An azimuth compass (or azimuthal compass) is a nautical instrument used to measure the magnetic azimuth, the angle of the arc on the horizon between the...
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    In navigation, bearing or azimuth is the horizontal angle between the direction of an object and north or another object. The angle value can be specified...
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    points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily...
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    reference vector, as long as it is clearly defined. Quite commonly, azimuths or compass bearings are stated in a system in which either north or south can...
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    the other horizontal. Rotation about the vertical axis varies the azimuth (compass bearing) of the pointing direction of the instrument. Rotation about...
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    90°, south is 180°, and west is 270°. These numbers allow the compass to show azimuths or bearings which are commonly stated in degrees. If local variation...
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  • speaking, the compass azimuth which is the practical value used everywhere (in example in airlines as the so called course) on a compass (where North is...
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    cardinal directions form the points of the compass. Arbitrary horizontal directions may be indicated by their azimuth angle value. Direction determination refers...
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    to get directional degree measurements (azimuth) through use of the Earth's magnetic field. Holding the compass at waist-height, the user looks down into...
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    strike of the feature is the azimuth (compass direction) of the strike line. This can be represented by either a quadrant compass bearing (such as N25°E),...
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  • Francis Court, Clerkenwell, London and an establishment known as "The Azimuth Compass" in Leadenhall Street, London. His company later became known as Gregory...
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    the island for only ten hours. Captain Folger was given the Bounty's azimuth compass and Larcum Kendall K2 marine chronometer by Adams. The K2 was the third...
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    wandering. Magnetic north is the direction that the north end of a magnetized compass needle points, which corresponds to the direction of the Earth's magnetic...
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    and discovered the by-then thriving community. Adams gave Bounty's Azimuth compass and Marine chronometer to Topaz's captain, Mayhew Folger. News of the...
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  • a directional guide. The azimuth can be used along with sun compass orientation to help animals navigate. The Sun's azimuth can be defined as the direction...
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    Folger of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Adams gave to Folger the Bounty's azimuth compass and marine chronometer. Seventeen years later, in 1825, HMS Blossom...
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    A prismatic compass is a navigation and surveying instrument which is extensively used to find out the bearing of the traversing and included angles between...
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    device to record a precise bearing or azimuth to a given target or to determine a location. Hand or sighting compasses include instruments with simple notch-and-post...
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    antenna is also directional horizontally, gain and ERP will vary with azimuth (compass direction). Rather than the average power over all directions, it is...
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    with the most advanced navigational aids of the day, including an azimuth compass made by Henry Gregory, ice anchors, and the latest apparatus for distilling...
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    inductor, theodolite, self-recording magnetograph, magnetic declinometer, azimuth compass. Once a week at the absolute reference point calibration measurements...
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  • dipping-needle a very delicate hygrometer of Jack's own invention an improved azimuth compass a Geneva cyanograph thermometers graduated by Ramsden Captain Aubrey's...
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    1931, and had larger bridges that encompassed the rangefinder, an azimuth compass sighting device and the gun-fire control room, as well as a range finding...
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    hours.[citation needed] Approximate locations of sunset on the horizon (azimuth) as described above can be found in Refs. The figure on the right is calculated...
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  • that an officer is on board. azimuth circle An instrument used to take the bearings of celestial objects. azimuth compass An instrument employed for ascertaining...
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    aircraft on approach to a runway. It provides azimuth, elevation, and distance, as well as "back azimuth" for navigating away from an aborted landing or...
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    flight rules (VFR) require an airspeed indicator, an altimeter, and a compass or other suitable magnetic direction indicator. Instrument flight rules...
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    Earth's magnetic field. It encompasses the history of navigation using compasses, studies of the prehistoric magnetic field (archeomagnetism and paleomagnetism)...
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    with the most advanced navigational aids of the day, including an azimuth compass made by Henry Gregory, ice anchors and the latest apparatus for distilling...
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  • MIL-PRF-10436N:Performance Specification, Compass, Magnetic, Unmounted, 31 OCT 2003: 3.4.9.3. Compass error. The error in magnetic azimuth, including that caused by pivot...
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