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6. Temperature(TEMP)
7. Recordedtemperaturehistory
8. Stopwatch(TIMER)
9. Time(WATCH)
Compass (CMP)
Thedigitalcompassdisplaystheprecisegeographic
directionandbearingsinwhichyouarelookingthrough
thebinoculars.Northisat360°,Eastat90°,Southat
180°andWestat270°.ThecompassofyourMINOXBN
7x50DCcanalternativelydisplayeitherthecentermark
(fig.4)orthehorizontalgraticule(fig.5).
Bypushingthenavigationbuttons(3),youcanalternate
betweenthetwodisplayoptions.Forexample,inthe
centermarkmode,youcanseetheprecisebearingsin
whichyouarelookingbetween0°and359°aswellas
oneof8geographicdirections(cardinalpoints).Turning
thebinocularstotherightandinsuccession,theseare
North(N),North-East(NE),East(E),South-East(SE),
South(S),South-West(SW),West,North-West(NW).
Example:
Infig.1youcanseethecompassreading
ofSouth-East(SE)atprecisely84°.Infig.5,yourpre-
cisebearingisat184°andwithuseofthehorizontal
graticule,youcanmathematicallydeterminetherange
toobjectsinthedistance.
Using the horizontal graticule
Thehorizontalgraticuleasseeninfigure5,canbeused
todeterminetheapproximatelengthofanobjectorthe
approximatedistancetoanobject.Somefactorsmust
beknowntousethefollowingcalculations,whichare
oftenindicatedonnavigationalmapsorcanbedeter-
minedusingotherdevicesorsourcesofinformation.
Fig.4
Fig.5
Fig.6