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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4924592 | Plate sundial with installation indicia A typical plate and gnomon sundial with an enlarged dial plate and an extended gnomon is provided with latitude and longitude displacement indicia lines on the dial plate, beneath the gnomon and beyond the time indicia. A point is established on the gnomo... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4912853 | Reticle plate and method for establishment of a north-oriented or south-oriented line by circumpolar orientation A reticle plate provided with a reticle and three concentric circles of ving diameter and methods of use thereof, the invention allows a user to establish a north-oriented or south-oriented line by alignment of selected circumpolar stars with the circles... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4910875 | Longitude location device A longitude finder for locating the longitude on the earth of a defined location at which the user of the device is positioned. The device includes a reflective surface for viewing an image of one body in the solar system, such as the moon or a planet, wh... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4771545 | Precision pointing mechanism A telescope (10) is precisely pointed by a detent mechanism (32) in a sighting direction (18) after a motor (22) generally positions the telescope. The detent mechanism includes a roller assembly (60) precisely journalled at one end of an arm (38) which i... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4763418 | Automatic sextant A sextant for indicating the angular separation between two objects, including two members interconnected at a pivot point, means for adjusting the angle between the members to be indicative of the angular separation between the objects, the means for adj... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4702011 | Sextant having a microprocessor for calculating the position of heavenly bodies A sextant having a telescope, a fixed split horizon mirror, a pivotal index arm supporting an index mirror and a stepping motor coupled to the index arm to cause rotation thereof on receipt of control pulses, the number of pulses applied to the stepping m... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4635371 | Device to indicate solar exposure A device for determining the annual exposure of a site which comprises a viewer having a lens with markings provided thereon for determining the line of travel of the sun at a given latitude for selected dates of the year and indicating the position of th... | 01/13/1987 |
| 4602259 | Polar mount antenna satellite tracking apparatus and method of alignment thereof A polar mount for a parabolic satellite tracking antenna insures close tracking of the antenna to a synchronous satellite track sector bearing multiple satellites within the earth's equatorial plane. The apparatus tilts the polar pivot axis of the antenna... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4454658 | Device to locate communication satellites A device to locate the position of a communication satellite with respect to a specific site on the earth's surface including a transparent screen having markings to indicate the positions of one or more satellites for that site with respect to a horizont... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4449817 | Celestial navigator Celestial navigational instrument and method of determination of local latitude and local hour angle of Aries by a single sighting on the night sky. Greenwich hour angle of Aries and latitude are obtained by simple reference to the instrument's scales and... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4436421 | Polaris axis finder A polar axis finder for an equatorial mounting telescope has an objective lens and a focus mirror having a Polaris collimating mark thereon disposed at a focal point of the objective lens. A time scale cylinder has a time scale thereon and the focus mirro... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4413423 | Sun tracking device The device comprises a declination adjustable solar ray directed assembly straddling the rim of a circular segment, hinged on the polar axis of an equatorial mount. The circular segment has a holding means for positioning it on the rim of a time dial plac... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4412386 | Compass A non-magnetic compass for use in a moving military land vehicle, comprising a rapidly rotating platform having a north star-seeking columnar element that carries a sun-seeking telescope. Fibre optic bundles transmit sun rays from the telescope to a selec... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4387999 | Electronic sundial apparatus An electronic sundial apparatus which signals the passage of each hour by a chime, bell or other audible indication and which requires no external source of power other than the sun. Inner and outer concentric hemispheres with vertically extending apertur... | 06/14/1983 |
| 4364183 | Heliostat-adjusting solar sight A solar sight having a scale calibrated in terms of solar declination angle and reflector angle is provided with diffraction pattern forming means comprising a movable sighting tube which, when directed at the sun, provides a Fresnel pattern on a viewing ... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4333243 | Latitude finder An apparatus for indicating the latitude position of the user is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a base member carrying a scale having degrees of latitude marked on the scale. The base member further carries a scale correcting for the declination of th... | 06/08/1982 |
| 4288922 | Device to indicate solar exposure A device for determining the annual solar exposure of a site which includes a wide angle viewer and a transparent screen having the paths of the sun at various times of year drawn on it, and with the viewer and screen fixed with respect to each other so t... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4244651 | Impersonal eyepiece for astronomic positioning An improved impersonal eyepiece for astronomic positioning is affixed to an optical viewing device to provide a means for observing the position of a celestial object at timed intervals. The viewing device produces a source image of the celestial object a... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4236313 | Apparatus for and method of evaluating solar exposure A technique is disclosed herein for evaluating solar exposure at various points in any one of a number of given geographic locations for any given period during the year in order to determine the most efficient location for a solar collector. This techniq... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4197653 | Electronic sextant An apparatus to be mounted on conventional sextants permitting faster, more accurate readings with memory storage capability. Alternative transducing means are attached to a sextant arm and generate electronic signals corresponding to amount of rotation o... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4138826 | Device for locating celestial bodies The invention disclosed relates to a device for locating celestial bodies by reference to Right Ascension and Declination, and the device is intended to locate using either, R. A. with Declination, or Azimuth with Altitude, or both. However, the use of R.... | 02/13/1979 |
| 4123164 | Autocollimating assembly for the self-calibration of a stellar navigational system An autocollimating assembly is provided for the tracking or position-sensing sub-system of a stellar navigational system, the sub-system being mounted on the stable platform of an inertial measuring unit. The autocollimating assembly, in conjunction with ... | 10/31/1978 |
| 4104722 | Method and apparatus for celestial navigation This invention provides an improved method and apparatus for celestial navigation. A reference spherical triangle is established from the coordinates of the ground position of an observed selected celestial body and an assumed position for the observer. A... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4083636 | Navigational instrument A navigational system for spacecraft use utilizes two telescopes gimbaled on a common axis to measure the scalar angle between a star and the lunar limb. The common axis is the axis of rotation of a momentum wheel carrying a narrow mirror. When each track... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4082462 | Automatic space sextant A navigational system for spacecraft utilizes two telescopes gimbaled on a common axis to measure the scalar angle between a star and the lunar limb. The common axis is the axis of rotation of a momentum wheel that carries a light source on it for the gen... | 04/04/1978 |
| 3981588 | Means and method for determining meridian location and azimuth Stellar events are timed through a lens system and reticle by a photomultiplier tube, times are compared and a difference factor computed, the difference factor is implemented to move the lens system, reticle and photomultiplier until times are equal, ver... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3968570 | Electronic sextant An improved sextant which provides a very accurate angular measurement of the position of a celestial body relative to the horizon. The sextant is a typical prior art sextant having a horizon glass and an index mirror, and wherein the sextant is sighted b... | 07/13/1976 |
