All the following problems have the same constants. The Index Error on the sextant is 2' off the arc. The height of eye is 10 feet. There is no watch error. The speed of Ocean Star for this problem is a constant five knots.
All shots are of the sun's lower limb.
The students come up on deck and take a lower limb shot of the sun. 27min 15 sec. Calculate intercept and plot LOPs. Establish Estimated Position. Convert this to True.