Celestial Navigation for the Clueless

A simplified tutorial on easy methods to do newbie and superior Celestial Navigation sights and fixes. Illustrated with examples and marked tables to make the entire course of simpler. Accommodates full info, worksheets, all the things wanted to study (besides the Nautical Almanac, which have to be bought individually).

Throughout my seek for information about how Celestial Navigation works, I ran by way of a whole lot of {dollars} of nugatory books that did nothing however frustrate me. So, so as to assist myself out, I began conserving a pocket book for myself as I realized, fixing the educational issues alongside the best way as I superior, and ironing out wrinkles in different books’ instructing strategies. That pocket book developed right into a full-blown guide which you see right here now.

I even went as far as to rebuild customary sight worksheets right into a format that truly is smart, along with fleshing out and simplifying directions to be used with the Nautical Almanac’s compact SR Tables– no want for cumbersome volumes of HO229 or 249 books!

The total guide is 110 pages, is packed stuffed with step-by-step examples, 3-D illustrations, and many others. It incorporates full info and tutorials on easy methods to do Polaris sights, Midday sights, Solar, Moon, and Star sights, Sight Reductions, and easy methods to plot Strains of Place. It incorporates worksheets and all of the pertinent almanac pages that the tutorials are primarily based from. There may be completely nothing extra you’ll need, aside from a sextant and an up-to-date Nautical Almanac, to study and observe Celestial Navigation.