- Subject
- Navigation
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Troughton
- Provenance
- Lent by the Royal Astronomical Society
- Primary inscriptions
- "Troughton London" "1008" (serial number)
- Object type
- Sextant
- Dimensions
- Height: 302mm
- Inventory No
- 13981
- Accession Number
- 1931-6/130
Description
Troughton design of double-frame sextant, index mirror, horizon glass, two sets of pivoted shades, telescope, reinforced index arm with pivoted arm for reading microscope. Gold scale and vernier, wooden handle. Mounted on 10" pillar stand with tribrach base, two counter-weights.
Case.
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