Me: well i'm pretty sure no sextant has ever looked like that- notices the background- ah
October 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Me: well i'm pretty sure no sextant has ever looked like that- notices the background- ah
Sextant - YouTube
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October 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
#Octember Maira is probably Sextans. And after sniggering about the name, she'd agree.
The sextant is the tool that represents the Fallen Star and, by extension, Maira. She seeks direction - a sextant would help with that.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The sextant is the tool that represents the Fallen Star and, by extension, Maira. She seeks direction - a sextant would help with that.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Please try to remember the 8th of #Octember!
TODAY'S CHARACTER: What would your character's constellation be?
Stories so old are told with shapes in the stars. If Homer's are up there, why not ours?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
TODAY'S CHARACTER: What would your character's constellation be?
Stories so old are told with shapes in the stars. If Homer's are up there, why not ours?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
October 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
#Octember Maira is probably Sextans. And after sniggering about the name, she'd agree.
The sextant is the tool that represents the Fallen Star and, by extension, Maira. She seeks direction - a sextant would help with that.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The sextant is the tool that represents the Fallen Star and, by extension, Maira. She seeks direction - a sextant would help with that.
#WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Hazbinhotel #Alastor
This is a TOP tier Alastor outfit to me.
I love them turning his monocle into a sextant l, I love the boots, I love his chef hat, and I love his neckerchief. It’s all so peak!!!
This is a TOP tier Alastor outfit to me.
I love them turning his monocle into a sextant l, I love the boots, I love his chef hat, and I love his neckerchief. It’s all so peak!!!
October 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
#Hazbinhotel #Alastor
This is a TOP tier Alastor outfit to me.
I love them turning his monocle into a sextant l, I love the boots, I love his chef hat, and I love his neckerchief. It’s all so peak!!!
This is a TOP tier Alastor outfit to me.
I love them turning his monocle into a sextant l, I love the boots, I love his chef hat, and I love his neckerchief. It’s all so peak!!!
To the Nebraskans who jeered and cheered to Trump’s comment to “Take out” Los Angeles and San Diego:
I highly doubt Gerald Ford would have ever said anything that horrific about his fellow Americans. He served in the US Navy during WWII.
San Diego is home to the Pacific fleet and US Navy.
I highly doubt Gerald Ford would have ever said anything that horrific about his fellow Americans. He served in the US Navy during WWII.
San Diego is home to the Pacific fleet and US Navy.
October 6, 2026 at 10:16 AM
To the Nebraskans who jeered and cheered to Trump’s comment to “Take out” Los Angeles and San Diego:
I highly doubt Gerald Ford would have ever said anything that horrific about his fellow Americans. He served in the US Navy during WWII.
San Diego is home to the Pacific fleet and US Navy.
I highly doubt Gerald Ford would have ever said anything that horrific about his fellow Americans. He served in the US Navy during WWII.
San Diego is home to the Pacific fleet and US Navy.
#Octember
I know absolutely nothing, so making these up.
Wyd: a serpent with a forked tongue
Feylie: a centaur with horns
Simon: a sextant
Reena: cupid with a bow and arrow
I know absolutely nothing, so making these up.
Wyd: a serpent with a forked tongue
Feylie: a centaur with horns
Simon: a sextant
Reena: cupid with a bow and arrow
Please try to remember the 8th of #Octember!
TODAY'S CHARACTER: What would your character's constellation be?
Stories so old are told with shapes in the stars. If Homer's are up there, why not ours?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
TODAY'S CHARACTER: What would your character's constellation be?
Stories so old are told with shapes in the stars. If Homer's are up there, why not ours?
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
October 8, 2026 at 4:21 PM
#Octember
I know absolutely nothing, so making these up.
Wyd: a serpent with a forked tongue
Feylie: a centaur with horns
Simon: a sextant
Reena: cupid with a bow and arrow
I know absolutely nothing, so making these up.
Wyd: a serpent with a forked tongue
Feylie: a centaur with horns
Simon: a sextant
Reena: cupid with a bow and arrow
Quarry mirth sextant flint alpha
amateur,, quarry mirth sextant flint alpha
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October 11, 2026 at 10:37 PM
All that reading I’ve done about whether the sextant or chronometer was placed correctly in the box during transport to the ship is gonna pay off now.
October 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
All that reading I’ve done about whether the sextant or chronometer was placed correctly in the box during transport to the ship is gonna pay off now.
Sunday Records - Now Spinning
October 4, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Sunday Records - Now Spinning
Astrolabe, sextant, fucking looking at the stars!
If GPS gets jammed, warships still need to know where they are. Northrop Grumman just got $29.2 million to build navigation systems that work without it, and Canada and Australia are paying most of the bill.
defence-blog.com/northrop-to-...
defence-blog.com/northrop-to-...
Northrop to build GPS-free navigation for three navies
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $29.2 million contract for early production of the AN/WSN-12 inertial navigation system, a shipboard navigator that keeps track of a vessel's position with...
defence-blog.com
October 4, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Astrolabe, sextant, fucking looking at the stars!
are those TV aerials medieval?
also, chimney pots too modern, manufactured slate, lead flashing, those look like double-glazed dormer windows, what even is that thing he's holding (on cloudy day no less), why's he on the roof, & England has had roads for millennia you don't need a sextant mate
also, chimney pots too modern, manufactured slate, lead flashing, those look like double-glazed dormer windows, what even is that thing he's holding (on cloudy day no less), why's he on the roof, & England has had roads for millennia you don't need a sextant mate
Let's play another fun game of can you spot what's wrong with this pile of ai slop...
October 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
are those TV aerials medieval?
also, chimney pots too modern, manufactured slate, lead flashing, those look like double-glazed dormer windows, what even is that thing he's holding (on cloudy day no less), why's he on the roof, & England has had roads for millennia you don't need a sextant mate
also, chimney pots too modern, manufactured slate, lead flashing, those look like double-glazed dormer windows, what even is that thing he's holding (on cloudy day no less), why's he on the roof, & England has had roads for millennia you don't need a sextant mate
Yes, much like jetliners of the era had glass sextant ports in the cockpit ceiling so the flight engineer could determine their position by celestial navigation.
October 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Yes, much like jetliners of the era had glass sextant ports in the cockpit ceiling so the flight engineer could determine their position by celestial navigation.
Now playing on Echo Chamber: "Crowsnest" by Rick Sextant
October 7, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Now playing on Echo Chamber: "Crowsnest" by Rick Sextant
😄 Did you keep a sextant handy?
October 6, 2026 at 2:29 AM
😄 Did you keep a sextant handy?
Pretty accurate eastwards until about Pickering nuclear, then it goes a bit too squiggly.
Anytime these old maps resemble reality really shows the skilled observations of whoever made them w such limited tech. A sextant and nautical spyglass?
Anytime these old maps resemble reality really shows the skilled observations of whoever made them w such limited tech. A sextant and nautical spyglass?
On this date in 1757, the Toronto shoreline was first detailed on a French map. It identifies the Credit River (Rivière au Credit), the Humber River (R. Toronto), Fort Rouillé on the Exhibition Grounds, and the Scarborough Bluffs (Les Grandes Ecores).
October 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Pretty accurate eastwards until about Pickering nuclear, then it goes a bit too squiggly.
Anytime these old maps resemble reality really shows the skilled observations of whoever made them w such limited tech. A sextant and nautical spyglass?
Anytime these old maps resemble reality really shows the skilled observations of whoever made them w such limited tech. A sextant and nautical spyglass?
I kept trying to post a bunch of photos yesterday but bluesky kept eating the post, so here's one of 'em by itself.
October 8, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I kept trying to post a bunch of photos yesterday but bluesky kept eating the post, so here's one of 'em by itself.
16/25 What did they use? The octant of 1731 measured up to 90 degrees, not enough for wide Moon-Sun distances. In 1757, a naval captain, John Campbell, who had tried lunars at sea, proposed a sixth of a circle: 120 degrees. The first sextant was built in 1759.
October 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
16/25 What did they use? The octant of 1731 measured up to 90 degrees, not enough for wide Moon-Sun distances. In 1757, a naval captain, John Campbell, who had tried lunars at sea, proposed a sixth of a circle: 120 degrees. The first sextant was built in 1759.
17/25 How did it work? One observer brings the Moon's bright limb to the Sun's limb, or to a star, in the sextant. At the same moment, two others take the altitudes of both bodies, and someone notes the watch. Repeat and take the mean.
October 6, 2026 at 2:17 AM
17/25 How did it work? One observer brings the Moon's bright limb to the Sun's limb, or to a star, in the sextant. At the same moment, two others take the altitudes of both bodies, and someone notes the watch. Repeat and take the mean.
Record #1232: Herbie Hancock, Sextant (1973, 12”, US, Columbia Records)
October 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Record #1232: Herbie Hancock, Sextant (1973, 12”, US, Columbia Records)
Love the putti in this pendiment on an 1860s commercial building on St Vincent Street in Glasgow. Given how they're handling the sextant, I'm not too sure I'd trust the two on the right with navigating the boat they're busy loading up!
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #stvincentstreet
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #stvincentstreet
October 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Love the putti in this pendiment on an 1860s commercial building on St Vincent Street in Glasgow. Given how they're handling the sextant, I'm not too sure I'd trust the two on the right with navigating the boat they're busy loading up!
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #stvincentstreet
#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #stvincentstreet
Meh...I could do all of those things while flying a plane.
(25 years ago)
Aaaand technically the sextant is a theoretica skill but that's just a back-up plan.🤣
(25 years ago)
Aaaand technically the sextant is a theoretica skill but that's just a back-up plan.🤣
October 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Meh...I could do all of those things while flying a plane.
(25 years ago)
Aaaand technically the sextant is a theoretica skill but that's just a back-up plan.🤣
(25 years ago)
Aaaand technically the sextant is a theoretica skill but that's just a back-up plan.🤣
They're getting lazy nowadays, I suppose.
Not even a sextant in sight on that bridge.
Not even a sextant in sight on that bridge.
October 4, 2026 at 11:48 AM
They're getting lazy nowadays, I suppose.
Not even a sextant in sight on that bridge.
Not even a sextant in sight on that bridge.
L'ancien panneau à aiguilles a cédé sa place à un écran numérique flambant neuf, les détails esthétiques sont plus nets et la flèche a entièrement été rénovée, mêlant subtilement le « D » du land et le « I » d'information à un sextant de navigation.
October 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
L'ancien panneau à aiguilles a cédé sa place à un écran numérique flambant neuf, les détails esthétiques sont plus nets et la flèche a entièrement été rénovée, mêlant subtilement le « D » du land et le « I » d'information à un sextant de navigation.
Needs a sextant, compass, and sidereal time, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
(A little crystal too, just for mystery!)
(A little crystal too, just for mystery!)
October 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Needs a sextant, compass, and sidereal time, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
(A little crystal too, just for mystery!)
(A little crystal too, just for mystery!)
