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What is Sextent ?
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Answer / guest
It is an instrument used to determine the Sun?s altitude at
a given place. In other words it is the angle which the line
joining the observer and the sum makes with the horizontal.
It us used by sailors
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Answer / aman khan
It is an instument which is use to determine the height of
inaccesible objects by finding the angle of elivation using
the sextent
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Answer / ehsanasif
A sextant is a navigational instrument used to measure the angle of elevation of celestial bodies, usually the sun or moon, in order to determine one's location and direction.
More generally, a sextant can be used to measure the angle between any two objects, by which we can calculate the distance between them.
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