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Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age

Author : John Karl
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780939837755
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age written by John Karl and published by Paradise Cay Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books on celestial navigation take shortcuts in explaining concepts; incorrect diagrams and discussion are often used for the sake of moving the student along quickly. This book tells the true story-and the whole story. It conveys celestial navigation concepts clearly and in the shortest possible time.It's tailored for navigation in the GPS age-a time of computers, calculators, and web resources. Although it covers all of the traditional methods of 'working a sight, ' the primary thrust is using the (under $10) scientific calculator. By using equations that you key into your calculator, this book guides you toward a better understanding of the concepts of celestial navigation.You will learn novel ways to plot lines of position, ways to check your sextant accurately by star sights, and how to tell what time it is from a moon sight. The many appendices are a treasure of references and explanations of abstract ideas. Celestial Navigation is a crucial skill for the offshore navigator to know, this book provides the shortest path to that knowledge.

Mariner's Celestial Navigation

Author : William P. Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Mariner's Celestial Navigation written by William P. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Practical Navigator

Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Celestial Navigation

Author : Alexander Arnfinn Olsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031475429
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Celestial Navigation written by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Celestial Navigation

Author : David Burch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914025511
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Navigation written by David Burch and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been used for 30 years, updated periodically as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required. The only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times). This is a practical, how-to-do-it book, which also includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well. Plus this book includes other crucial factors of ocean navigation besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, and more. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation. The book includes: text, practice problems, tables selections, detailed glossary, and full solutions. Printable work forms, plotting sheets, and other resources are available at no charge from www.starpath.com/celnavbook. Preface to the Second Edition: We are pleased to say that after ten more years of using this text we do not find reason to change the basic approach and methods of the teaching. We still use most of the same examples, which are now quite old, but that is the beauty of celestial navigation. It has not changed, so we do not benefit in any way from making all new examples, which would bring with them more chance of error in a book of many numbers. We have, however, notably improved and expanded the book. Each section has been updated and reformatted for a clearer presentation, often in response to student questions over the years. New graphics have been added and older ones all updated. There is much new content in the text, especially in the In-Depth chapter, including more detailed discussion of the sailings and more background on the principles. New sections were added on general ocean navigation and optimizing the fixes. We have also updated the electronic navigation section, as most ocean navigators will also be using other tools besides celestial.

An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics

Author : Forest Ray Moulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics written by Forest Ray Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coastal Navigation

Author : Dominique F. Prinet
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525521233
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Coastal Navigation written by Dominique F. Prinet and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coastal Navigation for Class and Home Study is based on the notes prepared for students by the author during some 20 years of teaching navigation, initially to private or commercial pilots, and then to sailors and professional mariners. The book is copiously illustrated with graphics which explain chart projections, scales and symbols, and describe lights and other navigation aids. It demystifies the True, Magnetic and Compass Norths as well as problems of time, speed and distances, and explains how to plot courses and take bearings, or draw regular and advanced Lines of Position using the international system of labeling. The book further clarifies the use of vectors to easily determine the impact of a current on the boat speed and direction, and goes on to show how to evaluate tides and currents. The final sections describe the use of GPS and electronic charts, highlighting their limitations. Additional notes and explanations are given in the areas where students traditionally experience difficulties, as well as supplementary examples and exercises. The companion book, Coastal Navigation Exercises, offers all the exercises needed for practice.

Celestial Navigation

Author : Anne Tyler
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030778827X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Navigation written by Anne Tyler and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, uplifting, heartbreaking love story from the beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author: "To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE). Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jeremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn—especially when he's falling in love....

Celestial Navigation

Author : Jeff Toghill
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393302943
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Celestial Navigation written by Jeff Toghill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986-06-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the uninitiated, celestial navigation appears to be a somewhat frightening exercise in mathematics. In fact, the maximum mathematics involved in the new sight reduction systems is the addition of three lines of figures. Similarly, the apparent complexities of the solar and stellar systems take on a less frightening appearance when related to the lighthouses and similar earthly objects used for coastal navigation. Throughout this book, the author uses such a comparison between earthly and heavenly objects in explaining the close relationship between coastal and celestial navigation. In doing so, he reduces a complex subject to a simple and interesting one that can be absorbed by even the most non-mathematically minded. The book concentrates for much of its length on the plotting of the boat's position by sun, planets, and stars when out of sight of land. It also deals with related navigational routines such as checking the compass by using heavenly objects, taking radio time signals, and adjusting the sextant for day-to-day corrections. This is celestial navigation in its simplest form, presented in a way which even the most amateur navigator can understand and absorb.

Astronavigation

Author : K.A. Zischka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319479946
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Astronavigation written by K.A. Zischka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book acts as a manual for the ancient methods of navigating by the stars, which continue to provide the sailor or pilot with a timeless means of determining location. Despite the prevalence of GPS, a comprehensive set of formulae that can be evaluated on any inexpensive scientific calculator in the event of a catastrophic software or systems failure is a vital failsafe. It also serves as a living link to centuries of explorers from centuries past. Beginning with the basics of positional astronomy, this guide moves on to the more complex math necessary to understand the ephemerides, tables showing the future positions of the stars and planets. These astronomical almanacs were the satellite navigation of their day. The objective of this book is twofold: to provide the reader with a concise, comprehensible manual on positional astronomy as it applies to astro-navigation and to furnish the concise algorithms for finding the position of the Sun and various navigational stars at any given instant. In a world where too many mariners and aeronauts rely solely on technology and are vulnerable to solar flares, electrical issues, and the like, this knowledge can be a life-saving backup, not to mention a fascinating study in its own rights. Included is an exact mathematical way to determine your position in the air or on the sea far more quickly and accurately than by using the old celestial navigational method, without even needing to know or understand the underlying mathematics. There is even a section that teaches how to measure the azimuth of a star using an analog wrist watch so if a sextant gets damaged, locating position is still possible. This book offers mathematicians and adventurers a way to determine position when the skies go dark. The U.S. Navy has recently realized that their electronic navigation systems are vulnerable to cyberattack, and as a result has instructed the Naval Academy to begin teaching celestial navigation again.

Sextant

Author : David Barrie
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006227936X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Sextant written by David Barrie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world. Since its invention in 1759, a mariner's most prized possession has been the sextant. A navigation tool that measures the angle between a celestial object and the horizon, the sextant allowed sailors to pinpoint their exact location at sea. David Barrie chronicles the sextant's development and shows how it not only saved the lives of navigators in wild and dangerous seas, but played a pivotal role in their ability to map the globe. He synthesizes centuries of seafaring history and the daring sailors who have become legend, including James Cook, Matthew Flinders, Robert Fitz-Roy, Frank Worsley of the Endurance, and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old "lunarian" and first single-handed-round-the-world yachtsman. He also recounts his own maiden voyage, and insights gleaned from his experiences as a practiced seaman and navigator. Full of heroism, danger, and excitement, told with an infectious sense of wonder, Sextant offers a new look at a masterful achievement that changed the course of history.

Successful Celestial Navigation with H.O. 229

Author : G. D. Dunlap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877420750
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Successful Celestial Navigation with H.O. 229 written by G. D. Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to Celestial Navigation

Author : William Henry Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Celestial Navigation written by William Henry Barton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Primer of Celestial Navigation

Author : John Favill
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343282370
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Primer of Celestial Navigation written by John Favill and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

An Introduction to Nautical Science

Author : Carl Chase
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393028508
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Nautical Science written by Carl Chase and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the basics: the physics of sailing, the theory of sail, ship handling under sail and power, the diesel engine, electrics and electronic. Here is an introduction to navigation--piloting, celestial, and electronic, the Nautical Almanac, the sextant, plotting, and a marvelous section called "Ten Easy Steps to Success with the Sun." This is an easy-to-understand, readable guide to what is needed to go to sea with confidence.

One Day Celestial Navigation

Author : Otis S. Brown
Publisher : Liberty Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Day Celestial Navigation written by Otis S. Brown and published by Liberty Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navigation

Author : B. Hofmann-Wellenhof
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3709160782
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Navigation written by B. Hofmann-Wellenhof and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global positioning systems like GPS or the future European Galileo are influencing the world of navigation tremendously. Today, everybody is concerned with navigation even if unaware of this fact. Therefore, the interest in navigation is steadily increasing. This book provides an encyclopedic view of navigation. Fundamental elements are presented for a better understanding of the techniques, methods, and systems used in positioning and guidance. The book consists of three parts. Beside a historical review and maps, the first part covers mathematical and physical fundamentals. The second part treats the methods of positioning including terrestrial, celestial, radio- and satellite-based, inertial, image-based, and integrated navigation. Routing and guidance are the main topics of the third part. Applications on land, at sea, in the air, and in space are considered, followed by a critical outlook on the future of navigation. This book is designed for students, teachers, and people interested in entering the complex world of navigation.