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ECLIPSE  8097

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Section 1 – ORIENTATION

 (Brunton Eclipse 8097)

Page(s):

 1 - 2

Section 2 –  MAGNETIC DECLINATION                                              2 - 4

Section 3 – FIELD BEARING

4 - 5 

Section 4 – DIRECTION OF TRAVEL

5

Section 5 – TOPOGRAPHIC MAP

5 - 6

Section 6 –  MAP BEARING

 (Map, Compass & Protractor Alignment)   

6 -  8 

Section 7 – TRIANGULATION

8 - 10 

Section 8 – BACK BEARING

10 

Section 9 – COORDINATE POSITIONING

 (UTM Grid)                       

10 - 12 

Section 10 – CLIP + ANIMAL ALERT / RESCUE WHISTLE                           13 

Section 11 – POCKET / MAP CLIP                                                                         13

Section 12 – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

13

Section 13 – ECLIPSE 8097 SPECIFICATIONS

13

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Summary of Contents for Eclipse 8097

Page 1: ...ION OF TRAVEL 5 Section 5 TOPOGRAPHIC MAP 5 6 Section 6 MAP BEARING Map Compass Protractor Alignment 6 8 Section 7 TRIANGULATION 8 10 Section 8 BACK BEARING 10 Section 9 COORDINATE POSITIONING UTM Gri...

Page 2: ...disk 1 2 Needle Disk RED circled N Fig 1 The needle disk contains a permanently magnetized ferrous material which orients the red circled N to magnetic north Also printed on the needle disk are E S an...

Page 3: ...ip Fig 1 The detachable pocket map clip fastens to the 8097 clips to maps pockets etc 1 11 Map Scales Fig 1 The map scales on the clear base allow for quick position and distance calculations 1 12 Mag...

Page 4: ...the other Fig 5 4 Hold azimuth ring stationary and rotate vial until the arrow on the blue orienting circle points to the value of magnetic declination at your position Make sure declination is correc...

Page 5: ...your body until vial displays circle over circle Figs 9 10 4 Sight distant object or destination at field bearing and travel to it Do not travel compass bearing by watching the compass If final desti...

Page 6: ...ible to determine a bearing from one position to another directly from a map The 8097 provides three methods of finding map bearings map compass and protractor alignment methods 6 1 Map Alignment Map...

Page 7: ...Draw an outline around the point Fig 19 6 3 a 0 to 180 Map Bearing 1 With 0 on the protractor pointing north position center of needle disk within the outline 2 Using the 0 to 180 scale read bearing...

Page 8: ...g at 320 pivot compass around land mark 1 until circle over circle Fig 23 8 Draw map bearing passing through landmark 1 using the clear base Your position is somewhere along this line 9 Repeat process...

Page 9: ...Position Global Positioning System GPS receivers are becoming valuable navigation aids with map and compass GPS receivers require an understanding of coordinate systems to locate a position This sect...

Page 10: ...6 in 6 7 cm Weight 1 6 oz 45 g Excluding lanyard pocket map clip and animal alert rescue whistle 8 Rotate clear base until the 0 is at the X and scale increases down Fig 29 Make sure UTM scale is par...

Page 11: ...n 6 REL VEMENT SUR CARTE alignement sur carte de la boussole et par rapporteur d angles 20 22 Section 7 TRIANGULATION 23 Section 8 REL VEMENT INVERSE 23 24 Section 9 POSITIONNEMENT PAR COORDONN ES 24...

Page 12: ...our une consultation rapide 1 3 Cercle d orientation BLEU Figure 1 Ce pointeur r glable bleu permet de calculer les rel vements ainsi que les ajustements de d clinaison magn tique De plus la ligne d o...

Page 13: ...vement ce point soit 170 Figure 7 1 9 Agrafe et sifflet de secours ou d alerte contre les animaux Figure 1 L agrafe de la courroie permet de ranger mains libres la boussole autour de votre cou votre...

Page 14: ...calculer des rel vements sans partenaire mais l exactitude des r sultats est moindre 4 Ligne de marche Si vous connaissez d j le rel vement par rapport une destination ajustez la boussole vers ce poin...

Page 15: ...ue les lignes rouges du limbe et la ligne bleue de la fiole soient align es sur les lignes nord sud de la carte Vous pouvez maintenant tracer les lignes de rel vement 8 Rel vement inverse Un rel vemen...

Page 16: ...s pour cal culer le rel vement inverse Calcul du rel vement inverse 1 Si le rel vement est de 0 et 180 ajoutez 180 2 Si le rel vement est de 181 et 360 soustrayez 180 9 Positionnement par coordonn es...

Page 17: ...097 Vous pouvez retirer le sifflet en appuyant sur le verrou de retenue au bas du sifflet puis en tirant Pour utiliser le sifflet placez le en position horizontale tout en gardant le verrou de retenue...

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