Which consequence results when atmospheric refraction corrupts sextant readings during celestial navigation?

💡 Explanation

Systematic error skews angle measurements via atmospheric refraction, therefore, altitude adjustments using refraction correction yield wrong corrected altitude, because the true angle differs from the apparent observation, rather than causing latitude/longitude errors directly.

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