Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you know a sailor, you might be able to borrow his sextant and work the angles that way. I have my Dad's sextant but the west coast of the US is a long way to swim with it from Ireland... :-) Douglas On 10/03/2021 21:38, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote: > That Bosch thing is a laser distance and angle reading digital Log > Table ( remember those?)? It also has the ability to do Trig > computations, and actually remembers how and what equations to use. > > ( I still have my Fathers' Log Tables from his time at MIT ( > 1938-40)and use it whenever I must.) Yes, I am THAT nerdy. > > The Math really is not so complicated, it is all about triangles, but > that was like 50 years ago...... > > > Frank Filippone > BMWRed735i at Gmail.com > > On 3/10/2021 11:19 AM, Brian Reid wrote: >> I have one of these. It can measure the height of anything that will >> reflect its laser back to it. The instructions for making such >> measurements are obscure. The instructions call that "indirect >> measurement". >> >> https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/boschtools-ocs/laser-measures-glm165-40-187965-p/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information