Printed and laminated a prototype of my solar slide rule on 350g A3 at the local print shop and it works fairly well! Correcting sextant height for index error, temperature, refraction, height of eye and lower limb is fast, as is computing latitude from the noon sight. Computing Hc and Z is a bit more involved (using additional scales on the reverse side)
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RE: Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?
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RE: Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?
The combined Latitude, Declination, LHA grid didn't work, so instead I've added the normal S/ST, and T/T1/T2 scales to allow computation of Hc and Z from the corrected sextant height.
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RE: Is this not a reasonable place to park?
Is this not a reasonable place to park?
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RE: Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?
Following up on the original question... Concise Products in Japan seems to still be producing circular slide rules https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/detail.php?product_id=7
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Always be prepared with a spare bicycle.
Always be prepared with a spare bicycle.
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RE: Is anyone manufacturing custom slide rules?
That appears to correctly compute sin(declination)*sin(latitude) now