Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Douglas, A beautiful instrument, and amazing penmanship. Thanks for the story. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 8/21/2017 8:36 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > Nice to see the eclipse images from people. To be honest, I wouldn't > have even tried to take any images as the spectacle of totality would > probably have blown my mind. > > We had a very minor (4%) eclipse over here in Ireland at 8.00pm, and > beforehand I started to make a pinhole projector out of a couple of > pieces of stiff paper.? This was a bit hit and miss. Then I remembered > something, and went hunting for it. Having successfully located the > solution, I watched the paltry eclipse through my Dad's 130 year old > sextant which has pretty powerful colour filters. > > 23 years after my Dad died, it was nice to resurrect his sextant to > see the moon bite. Instead of eclipse images, here's a couple of his > sextant and his 2nd Mate's ticket taken with my iPhone. His 1st Mate's > ticket is missing, and I understand from my mother that he either had > got a his Master's ticket or else was studying for it.. > > Apparently, his insistence to me, when I had issues with my teachers, > that he had been an exemplary school pupil turned out to be bigly fake > news. My uncle said he had been a difficult rebellious individual, and > that he had been expelled from two schools. In desperation, his father > had sent him away to sea as a merchant ship's cadet with the Reardon > Smith line based out of Cardiff. After circling the world a number of > times over seven years, sanity prevailed, and he returned home to > Cork, studied for his matriculation, and having got that, went to > University College Cork on a scholarship where he got his degree. The > only sailing he did later was with me and my brothers. > > Sextant by T.L. Ainsley of South Shields, England from the 1880s. > iPhone 5S. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sextant.jpg.html > > Certificate of Competency for Second Mate from 1930. iPhone 5S. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Second+Mate+Cert.jpg.html > > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >