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An astrolabe is easier...:)  I made a simple astrolabe (although haven't
tried it on a star yet) by printing out a page with a scale and pointer
template, pinning them together at their centers with a hat pin, and
suspending the disk using a bent paperclip as a hanging device.  

I haven't seen a sextant "kit", though. I did see instructions for making a
sextant using a CDROM, mirrors, and a hot glue gun; if that sounds like
something you'd like to pursue, I'll dig around for the source if you like.

Ben

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> Subject: sextant kits?
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> For an upcoming 5th grade school/museum collaboration:
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> I'm looking for a good source of inexpensive kits which can 
> be used to make sextants or octants or similar instruments.
> 
> I have a book, Latitude Hooks and Azimuth Rings, which has 
> instructions on making simple navigational instruments, but I 
> was hoping to get a ready-made, kid-tested "bag o'sextants" 
> kit. Creating my own might take until next Talk Like a Pirate 
> Day. Anyone ever heard of such a thing?
> 
> Marc Taylor
> Coordinator, Andrus Planetarium
> Hudson River Museum
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