Sextant Geocoin

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Released:
Friday, January 16, 2009
Origin:
Oregon, United States
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In the hands of angupa.

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About This Item

Sextant Coin

The Sextant Geocoin is a commemoration to the sextant. The octant and sextant replaced most of the earlier navigation tools in the late 1700s such as the back staff, mariner's astrolabe, and quadrant. The octant is 1/8 of a circle and a sextant is 1/6 of a circle. The sextant allowed for more range in the degree scale over the octant.

The biggest improvement the sextant made over all other sighting tools (except the octant) is its double reflecting mirrors which eliminated the ocular parallax other tools caused. It also allowed for greater accuracy by having finer degree adjustments.

The sextant design is so universal and accurate that it is still used on ships today as a backup instrument to electrical navigation devices. Even aircraft used these as backups if their avionic systems failed.

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Tracking History (50087.7mi) View Map

Retrieve It from a Cache 1/19/2013 angupa retrieved it from Gasverdichterstation Weitendorf Steiermark, Austria   Visit Log

GC out...
Write note 1/15/2013 jeepsussal posted a note for it   Visit Log

gesehen in Gasverdichterstation
Dropped Off 1/12/2013 Mutzikatz placed it in Gasverdichterstation Weitendorf Steiermark, Austria - 15.27 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/12/2013 Mutzikatz retrieved it from Mystic Place Steiermark, Austria   Visit Log

Heute den sextant mitgenommen, bevor er eingeschneit wird am Mystischen Platz
Mutzikatz
Dropped Off 1/10/2013 taube123 placed it in Mystic Place Steiermark, Austria - 1.56 miles  Visit Log
  • 2013-01-10 13.04.07 Dorner Mühle 1
  • 2013-01-10 13.04.57 Dorner Mühle 2
  • 2013-01-10 13.16.45 Wegkreuz
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/10/2013 taube123 retrieved it from Ein Kinderspaziergang Steiermark, Austria   Visit Log

Come with me ... 10. Januar 2013 11:32
Dropped Off 12/20/2012 zeith placed it in Ein Kinderspaziergang Steiermark, Austria - 19.04 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/19/2012 zeith retrieved it from back to the "roots" Steiermark, Austria   Visit Log

move it.
Dropped Off 12/9/2012 cezanne placed it in back to the "roots" Steiermark, Austria - 4.31 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/24/2012 cezanne retrieved it from Geocaching nach Zahlen Steiermark, Austria   Visit Log

I found this GC in a nice night cache and took it with me. I will drop it off again in the next suitable cache I'm going to find.
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