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Sunline

A line of position obtained from a sextant sight of the sun. "Take a sunline," means do a sun sight, reduce it, and plot it. Similar use for star-line, moon-line, etc. See Sextant Sight. Also spelled sun line. Note Bowditch has this as two words, but the US Navy has it as one word. We started years ago with one word, so will keep it this way.


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