Author : Arthur Ainslie Ageton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Book Synopsis Manual of Celestial Navigation by : Arthur Ainslie Ageton
Download or read book Manual of Celestial Navigation written by Arthur Ainslie Ageton and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Manual of Celestial Navigation was conceived and the arrangement devised while the author was on duty as an instructor in navigation at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. With all the wealth of research which has taken place in celestial navigation since the turn of the century, it would be virtually impossible to produce a method which is original in its entirety. ... The distinctive features of this Manual of Celestial Navigation are: 1. Methods for working sights and plotting lines of position from both an assumed position and the D.R. position are included in one book. 2. There is no interpolation. 3. The azimuth is most positively determinate in both methods. A new azimuth rule has removed the ambiguity from the solution for azimuth from an assumed position. 4. The solution is short, simple, and uniform under all conditions. As the navigator's work at sea consists largely of computing data for lines of position, this manual has been arranged primarily to make that problem easy to solve. In point of time, the basic method in this manual compares favorably with the various other short methods."--The preface