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Sextant Sextant
National Maritime Museum of Korea
Busan City, South Korea
A sextant is a navigational instrument to measure the altitude of the celestial sphere over the horizon in order to determine local longitude and latitude. Holding the sextant with its attached telescope, you take a sight of the horizon and a celestial object (either the sun or a star), and measure the angle between them.
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- Title: Sextant Sextant
- Creator: A. Berthélemy, Lorieux, P. Ponthus
- Location: Korea Museum Maritime Museum
- Physical Dimensions: W24.1xH10.3(cm)
- Medium: Metal
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