A Star to Steer Her By
Subtitle: A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation
By: by Edward J. Bergin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press
Published: November 1, 1983
Place of publication: Centreville, Md
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780870333095
Subjects: Navigation.
Description: Spend eight hours with this book and you will have a solid working knowledge of celestial navigation. This may sound like an outrageous claim, but it's true. A Star to Steer Her By: A Self-Teaching Guide to Offshore Navigation is a beginner's text, giving straightforward explanations of everything you need to know to find your way across the bay or around the globe. This book takes you step-by-step through celestial navigation. You'll learn how to use the Nautical Almanac, chronometer, sextant, star finder, and the H.O. 229 and assumed altitude sight reduction tables. The book features specially designed celestial navigation workforms developed from the course material the author has used in his Weems & Plath-sponsored navigation course. Each chapter is a complete lesson (with suggested time allotment), and includes a study guide, examples of realistic situations the mariner may encounter, and a oecheck yourselfa practice problems.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [202]
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; label: Introduction
title: Getting Organized; title: Choosing a Sextant; title: Nautical Equipment Suppliers; label: Chapter 1.
title: Piloting and Dead Reckoning; title: The Navigator's World; title: Degrees, Minutes, and Tenths; title: Longitude and Distance; title: Latitude and Distance; title: Nautical Charts; title: True and Magnetic Compass Roses; title: Measuring Distances on a Chart; title: Determining the Latitude and Longitude of Charted Objects; title: Directions on a Chart; title: Locating a Point Given Its Latitude and Longitude; title: Time, Speed, Distance; title: Dead Reckoning; title: Bearings and Lines of Position; title: Running Fixes; title: Circles of Position; label: Chapter 2.
title: Understanding Celestial Navigation; title: How Celestial Navigation Works; title: Plotting Celestial Lines of Position; title: Setting Up the Universal Plotting Sheet; title: Constructing a UPS; title: Assumed Positions and Plotting; title: The Running Fix; label: Chapter 3.
title: Celestial Timekeeping; title: Time Signals; title: Time Diagrams; title: Workforms; label: Chapter 4.
title: The Nautical Almanac; title: Coordinates of Celestial Bodies; title: Daily Pages of the Nautical Almanac; title: Daily Page Information for Stars and Planets; title: Recording Information on the Workform; title: Daily Page Information for the Sun and Moon; title: Filling Out the Workform for Sun and Moon; title: Information from the Yellow or Increments Pages; label: Chapter 5.
title: The Marine Sextant; title: How to Take Care of Your Sextant; title: How to Adjust Your Sextant; title: Reading the Sextant; title: Using the Sextant; title: Checking for Index Error; title: Upper and Lower Limbs; title: Techniques for Taking Sights; title: Corrections to the Sextant Reading; title: Instrument Error; title: Correction for the Height of Eye (dip); title: Sextant Correction Symbols; title: Sextant Correction Workforms; title: Altitude Correction Tables; title: Altitude Corrections for the Sun; title: Altitude Corrections for the Stars and Planets; title: Altitude Corrections for the Moon; title: Non-standard Conditions; label: Chapter 6.
title: Using H.O. 229; title: Step 1, Local Hour Angle and Assumed Longitude; title: LHA Workform; title: Step 2, Data for Entering the H.O. 229 Table; title: Step 3, Obtaining Data from H.O. 229; title: Recording Data from the Table; title: Explanation of the Data from the Table; title: Step 4, Corrections from the Interpolation Table; title: Layout of the Tables; title: Step 5, Computing the True Azimuth; title: Step 6, Computing the Intercept; title: Step 7, Plotting Data; label: Chapter 7.
title: Identifying Stars and Planets; title: Using the Nautical Almanac and H.O. 229 to Identify Stars and Planets; title: Star and Planet Identification Workform; title: How to Use H.O. 229 to Predict the Location of the Planets; title: Using the Starfinder to Identify Stars; label: Chapter 8.
title: Fixes at Noon; Long Distance Sailing; Cruise Preparation; title: The Noon Sight; title: Predicting the GMT of Meridian Passage; title: Taking the Noon Sight; title: Latitude by Noon Sight; title: Noon Sight Workform; title: Longitude by Noon Sight; title: Great Circle Sailing; title: Planning a Cruise; title: Publications and References; label: Chapter 9.
title: Assumed Altitude Method of Celestial Navigation; title: Advantages of Assumed Altitude Tables; title: Assumed Altitude Table for 42 Stars; title: How to Used the Assumed Altitude Table for 42 Stars; title: Assumed Altitude Table Workform for 42 Stars; title: Layout of the Table; title: Special Cases; title: Assumed Altitude Table for Sun, Moon, and Planets; title: T Angles; title: How to Use the Assumed Altitude Table for Sun, Moon, and Planets; title: Plotting Longitude; title: Total Assumed Altitude and Intercept; title: Z Difference and Azimuth; title: Workform for Assumed Altitude Table for Sun, Moon, and Planets; title: Layout of the Tables; title: Special Cases; label: Appendix 1.
title: Sample Workforms (Blank); title: H.O. 229 Celestial Workform: Sun. Moon, Planets; title: H.O. 229 Celestial Workform: Stars; title: H.O. 229 Star and Planet Identification Workform; title: Star Identification by Starfinder; title: Predicting Location of Planets by H.O. 229; title: Latitude, Longitude by Meridian Passage of the Sun; title: Workform for Assumed Altitude Method for 42 Stars; title: Workform for Assumed Altitude Method for Sun, Moon, Planets; label: Appendix 2.
title: Extracts from the 1983 Nautical Almanac; title: Altitude Correction Tables 10 degrees - 90 degrees Sun, Stars, Planets; title: Altitude Correction Tables 0 degrees - 10 degrees Sun, Stars, Planets; title: Altitude Correction Tables, Non-standard Conditions; title: Daily Pages for June 3, 4, and 5, Stars and Planets; title: Daily Pages for June 3, 4, and 5, Sun and Moon; title: Daily Pages for June 6, 7, and 8, Stars and Planets; title: Daily Pages for June 6, 7, and 8, Sun and Moon; title: Conversion of Arc to Time Table; title: Increments and Corrections Table; title: Altitude Correction Tables 0 degrees - 35 degrees, Moon; title: Altitude Correction Tables 35 degrees - 90 degrees, Moon; label: Appendix 3.
title: Extracts from H.O. 229; title: Interpolation Table for Declination Increment 0.0' to 15.9'; title: Interpolation Table for Declination Increment 16.0' to 31.9'; title: LHA 36 degrees, 324 degrees Same and Contrary Latitudes 30 degrees - 37 degrees; title: LHA 36 degrees, 324 degrees Same and Contrary Latitudes 38 degrees - 45 degrees; title: Interpolation Table for Declination Increments 28.0' to 43.9'; title: Interpolation Table for Declination Increments 44.0' to 59.9'; title: Supplemental Reading List