Pub229, Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation

Author: NIMA Staff
Publisher: ProStar Publications
ISBN: 9781577851936
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
The Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation (Pub 229) is published in six volumes, each of which contains two-eight degree zones of latitude with a one-degree overlap between volumes. They are designed to facilitate the practice of celestial navigation at sea. The tables are primarily used with the intercept method of sight reduction by entering arguments of latitude, declination, and local hour angle and obtaining tabulated altitudes and azimuth angles. The tables are prepared and published by NIMA on an as-needed basis.

Celestial Navigation

Author: Dominique F. Prinet
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460242114
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
This manual has grown out of all the courses given by Dominique Prinet, a certified Instructor-Evaluator for Sail Canada who has been teaching celestial navigation since 2000. It has benefitted from the thoughtful contributions of over 100 students. The aim of Celestial Navigation is to give a sufficient grounding in the subject to determine position at sea using a sextant for fixes on the sun, moon, stars and planets. Furthermore, the material presented will prepare a reader who wishes to pursue a Celestial Navigation Certificate through self-study. The subject requires some comfort with the basic concepts of navigation, but the prospective navigator only needs to know how to add and subtract either times or angles. Lucid and well-paced, Celestial Navigation starts with fundamentals and definitions which ensure that a motivated student need not bring anything more to the table than his or her willingness to master the subject. Richly illustrated, it includes a chapter with more than forty pages of review exercises covering all topics. The cleverness of many of the concepts, explained here, will bring about great intellectual joy and satisfaction. Whether you are a recreational sailor or an individual pursuing professional certification as a navigator, Celestial Navigation will teach you what you need to know.

American Practical Navigator

Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 886

Book Description

Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation

Author: Nga
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781463621957
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 398

Book Description
The Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation (Pub 229) is published in six Volumes, each of which contains two eight-degree zones of latitude with a one-degree overlap between Volumes. They are designed to facilitate the practice of celestial navigation at sea. The tables are primarily used with the Intercept method of sight reduction by entering arguments of latitude, declination, and Local Hour Angle and obtaining tabulated altitudes and azimuth angles. The tables are prepared and published by NGA on an as needed basis.

100 Problems in Celestial Navigation

Author: Leonard Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780939837335
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Traditional navigation with a sextant, an almanac, and a book of tables is still thriving, even with the availability of accurate, cheap GPS receivers. Batteries sometimes go dead, and electronic devices fail, especially in salt air. Also, it can be satisfying and fun to work out a position and plot it, all on your own - but getting good at it requires some practice.100 problems is a self-contained book of realistic celestial navigation problems, including excerpts of all the necessary Nautical Almanac pages and sight-reduction tables, with answers and explanations.

2021 Nautical Almanac

Author: Uk Hydrographic
Publisher: Diana
ISBN: 9785581630105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
The cornerstone for all celestial navigation, listing the celestial bodies used for navigation, a sight reduction table, and other information valuable to the offshore navigator. The content of this edition is identical to the United States Naval Observatory 2021 edition.

Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation: Latitudes 45°-60°, inclusive

Author: United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description

The Nautical Almanac for the Year 1981: For Training Purposes Only

Author: Usno Nautical Almanac Office
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780914025269
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
Data in this book are no longer valid for navigation. It is preserved in print because many training programs (including USCG and US Navy ) use examples from 1981 to teach celestial navigation. USCG license exams require data from this almanac. These exams also require Sight Reduction Tables, Pub 229, Vol. 2 and a 2102-D Star Finder.

Pub229, Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation

Author: NIMA Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781577852360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Norie's Nautical Tables

Author: John William Norie
Publisher: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson
ISBN: 9780852889459
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 568

Book Description
This famous set of mathematical tables was first published in 1803. It has been a bestseller ever since, and despite developments in electronic navigation it remains an essential requirement for anyone learning and practising astro-navigation. Last updated in 1994, the editor, George Blance, has worked for some time on the modernisation of all the tables for this major new edition. New tables have been included and obsolete ones deleted to conform with the changing techniques of navigation, with the aim of improving the accuracy of the calculated position and reducing the tedium of the calculation. All the tables required for coastal and deep sea navigation are included. A simple uniform method of interpolation for all the trigonometrical tables is used. Certain tables and data are also included which are not readily available on board ship or are only used in the examination room. The section 'Seaports of the World' has also been extensively updated and restructured with several hundred additional ports. The ports are listed geographically in the following order from Arctic Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, the Atlantic coast of Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa, East Africa, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Indian sub-continent, the Far East, Australasia, the west coast of North and South America and finally the east coast of North and South America. At the back of the section is an index of the seaports.