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Horizon mirror The more common name for horizon glass. A part of a sextant, it is the half-mirrored glass in line with the telescope. On "full-view" sextants this glass is not split into a mirror-half and a glass-half, but is transparent throughout. See FULL-VIEW SEXTANT.

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