Astromedia Sextant
Paper model of an Octant / sextant with an artificial horizon
Product details: Astromedia Sextant | Astromedia Verlag | Octant | Home / hobby | Material: Paper
One of the more elaborate models of Astromedia, this took about as much time to build as the astrolabium also in my collection. It is called a sextant but technically is an Octant as it only measures up to around a 100 degrees. It is designed after a ca 1900s instrument. It is equpped with a vernier allowing it to be read to minutes and estimated to about a third of that. It also has a (single) plastic filter allowing solar observations. The mirrors are aluminium and easily become undone with use (as mine have - I have an unopened set as well). Finally I also bought the optional artificial horizon which essentially consists of an additional mirror and a levelling vial. The vial is visible through the horizon mirror and shows the bubble overlaying the image from the index mirror.
astro sextant
Data sheet
- Type of use
- Home / hobby
- Material
- Paper
- graduation
- deg
- measuring range
- 100 (90)
- Radius limb in mm
- 170
- accuracy
- 5'
- fine reading
- vernier (single)
- Size instrument (l x w x h) in m
- 0.19 x 0.23 x 0.05
- weight instrument in kg
- 0.1
- country obtained from
- Netherlands
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Paper model of an Octant / sextant with an artificial horizon
Product details: Astromedia Sextant | Astromedia Verlag | Octant | Home / hobby | Material: Paper