Celestial for the Cruising Navigator
By: by Merle B. Turner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press
Published: April 1, 1986
Place of publication: Centreville, Md
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780870333415
Subjects: Nautical astronomy.
Description: The book presents a comprehensive treatment of celestial navigation based upon the essential foundations of nautical astronomy and spherical trigonometry. Beginning with a discussion of position and time, it proceeds systematically to show how sextant observations coupled with time provide indispensable checks and information on course, distance, and position. Emphasizing computational rather than tabular solutions to sight reduction problems, while basic trigonometric formulae are developed, all computation is done with the most inexpensive hand calculator. The author also stresses the backgrounds of nautical astronomy, beyond the perfunctory routines of sight reduction. The reader, in other words, learns not only what, but why. While the treatment is directed toward the cruising sailor who wishes to plan and undertake oceanic voyages, it is sufficiently comprehensive to fulfill the needs of the professional mariner.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [215].
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: CHAPTER ONE
title: Introduction; label: CHAPTER TWO
title: Positional: Terrestrial and Celestial; label: CHAPTER THREE
title: Time; label: CHAPTER FOUR
title: Navigational Astronomy: The Celestial Triangle; label: CHAPTER FIVE
title: Sight Reduction; label: CHAPTER SIX
title: The Navigator's Sextant; label: CHAPTER SEVEN
title: Star Identification; label: CHAPTER EIGHT
title: Finding Latitude and Longitude; label: CHAPTER NINE
title: The Sailings: Course and Distance Checks; label: CHAPTER TEN
title: Navigational Practice; title: Appendix A: Some Computational Formulae; title: Appendix B: Glossary; title: References; title: Index