How to Navigate Today
Subtitle: Based on the Original Edition by Marion Rice Hart
By: by Leonard Gray ; based on the original edition by M.R. Hart.
Contributors: Hart, M. R. 1891-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Centreville, Md
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780870333538
Subjects: Navigation.
Description: The sixth edition follows faithfully in the tradition of its honored predecessors, which, for more than forty years, have provided exactly what is needed for beginning navigators to learn the subject on their own. It explains what is being done and why, without getting beyond basic mathematics. The method taught is H.O. 249 because it is simple, inexpensive, and accurate enough for use even by experts
Notes: Bibliography: p. [84]-85.
Rev. ed. of: How to navigate today / by M.R. Hart. 5th ed. 1970.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; label: Chapter 1
title: Getting Started; label: Chapter 2
title: How Celestial Navigation Works; label: Chapter 3
title: Star Sights; label: Chapter 4
title: Sun Sights; label: Chapter 5
title: Planet Sights; label: Chapter 6
title: Moon Sights; label: Chapter 7
title: The Navigator's Day; label: Chapter 8
title: Other Sight Reduction Methods; label: Chapter 9
title: Using the Sextant; label: Chapter 10
title: The Star Finder; title: Glossary; title: Reading List; title: Excerpts from the nautical Almanac and H.O. 249; title: Index