Celestial Navigation With A Pocket Calculator

Author : Jerome MacCay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478238980
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (389 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Celestial Navigation written by Jerome MacCay and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was very honored when the nuclear physicist Ivo Orlic, who circumnavigate the world by his sailboat " Fiu ", expressed his gratitude. Despite having the indispensable GPS, he found himself in such circumstances in Pacific, that he was forced to use sextant and tables. I was ever more pleased by his gratitude since the year 2006 was in question. Furthermore, it convinced that this book should not end its life in antique stores and that it will always be in demand. This unique book is intended for navigators, yachtsmans and other fans of the sea and navigation who wish to reveal first of all the secrets of celestial navigation. Beside celestial navigation, the book provides a detailed description of the methods of identifying celestial bodies, defines sidereal, apparent and mean solar days, as well as the local time, Greenwich mean time, zone time, legal time and daylight - saving time ( or summertime). Also, it explains how to determine compass errors or the shortest routes in long-distance ocean sailing, instructs how to use small pocket calculators in navigation, how to orient oneself on a life raft by using improvised tools, how to navigate without any instruments etc. The British call the navigators who has no in-depth knowledge and solves navigational problems by calculator or computer a push-button navigator because for such navigation it is necessary to know only the sequence in which the buttons are to be pushed. However, such a navigator can bring himself and others into danger. The more you know, the further and safer you can sail! One should be aware that all types of navigation intertwine, so, for instance, sextant is also used in the coastal navigation. The book has been written clearly and in pleasantly readable fashion. It does not require any special prior knowledge so that it will also prove invaluable to the interested general reader. It contains all the necessary information required for celestial navigation at sea, including a number of relevant data, advices and instructions tested in practice and important to every navigator. The book also deals with theoretical side of celestial navigation. It describes the most appropriate methods for solving navigational problems and gives relevant examples and other data of interest to navigational practice. " The book is fantastic! It is one of the top two I have ever read!", the journalist of The Cruising World exclaimed me over the telephone. Apart from 106 pictures, tables and diagrams, the book contains carefully though - out work forms which have never been published elsewhere in the world. In addition, each chapter is superbly illustrated by renowned caricaturist. The reviewers of this book- Doc. Sofija Sadzakov, Research Fellow of the Opservatory of Belgrade, engineer Mladen Sutej, navigator and travel writer who sailed all around the world and the reputable academician Zvonko Maric- are well known to experts on the subject in the world. In the 90-ies the book was published in Serbian- Croatian and Spanish. However, due to some serious interest, we have decided to present it to the greater reading audience in English.Smooth sailing !!!