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Which consequence occurs when a damaged sextant mirror obscures stellar observation during celestial navigation?

A)Increased tidal prediction accuracy
B)Longitudinal position errors increase
C)Reduced compass deviation errors
D)More accurate depth sounding

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When a sextant malfunctions, parallax error becomes significant, because it amplifies angular measurement inaccuracies during celestial navigation; therefore, longitudinal error occurs, rather than reduced compass deviations, as star sights determine longitude.

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