Practical Celestial Navigation
Edition: Spi edition
Publisher: Mystic Seaport Museum; Brand: Mystic Seaport Museum Inc
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Mystic, Connecticut
Language: eng
Format: Spiral-bound
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780939510054
Subjects: Reference; History; History: World; General
Description: A comb-bound textbook/workbook praised by The Practical Sailor as "a first-class piece of work", Susan Howell's Practical Celestial Navigation was developed for Mystic Seaport's navigation courses. This third edition, 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.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; label: Chapter 1
title: Plotting, Piloting and Dead Reckoning; label: Chapter 2
title: Celestial Position Finding; label: Chapter 3
title: Use and Adjustment of the Sextant; label: Chapter 4
title: Sextant Altitude Correction; label: Chapter 5
title: Time; label: Chapter 6
title: Celestial Coordinates, the Nautical Almanac; label: Chapter 7
title: Sight Reduction by H.O. 229; label: Chapter 8
title: Plotting Celestial Lines of Position; label: Chapter 9
title: From Observation to Fix; label: Chapter 10
title: Sunrise, Sunset, Twilights, Local Apparent Noon; label: Chapter 11
title: Star Finder H.O. 2102-D, Star Identification; label: Chapter 12
title: Meridian and Ex-meridian Sights; label: Chapter 13
title: The Navigator's Day's Work; label: Chapter 14
title: H.O. 211; label: Chapter 15
title: The Navigational Triangle; label: Chapter 16
title: Construction of Mercator Projection Plotting Sheets; label: Chapter 17
title: Mercator Sailing; label: Chapter 18
title: Great Circle Sailing; label: Chapter 19
title: Calculator Methods of Sight Reduction; label: Chapter 20
title: Two Other Uses of Calculators; label: Appendix 1
title: Answers to Exercises; label: Appendix 2
title: Nautical Almanac Excerpts, Abbreviations, Forms; title: Index