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Practical Celestial Navigation
About this book
Praised by The Practical Sailor as "a first-class piece of work," Susan P. Howell's Practical Celestial Navigation was developed for Mystic Seaport's navigation courses. This third edition, originally published by the Seaport's Planetarium, retains the step-by-step format of the original, along with an abundance of diagrams and practice problems. Practical Celestial Navigation is recommended as a self-instruction text for beginners or for old celestial hands getting back in practice.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Chapter 1 Plotting, Piloting and Dead Reckoning
- Chapter 2 Celestial Position Finding
- Chapter 3 Use and Adjustment of the Sextant
- Chapter 4 Sextant Altitude Correction
- Chapter 5 Time
- Chapter 6 Celestial Coordinates, the Nautical Almanac
- Chapter 7 Sight Reduction by H.O. 229
- Chapter 8 Plotting Celestial Lines of Position
- Chapter 9 From Observation to Fix
- Chapter 10 Sunrise, Sunset, Twilights, Local Apparent Noon
- Chapter 11 Star Finder H.O. 2102-D, Star Identification
- Chapter 12 Meridian and Ex-meridian Sights
- Chapter 13 The Navigator’s Day’s Work
- Chapter 14 H.O. 211
- Chapter 15 The Navigational Triangle
- Chapter 16 Construction of Mercator Projection Plotting Sheets
- Chapter 17 Mercator Sailing
- Chapter 18 Great Circle Sailing
- Chapter 19 Calculator Methods of Sight Reduction
- Chapter 20 Two Other Uses of Calculators
- Appendix 1 Answers to Exercises
- Appendix 2 Nautical Almanac Excerpts, Abbreviations, Forms