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Subtitled "Everything but the Sextant", this book includes a "refresher" explaining the process, a star finder, sight reduction tables and numbers (good worldwide), and a five year almanac covering 2007 thru 2011, for determining precise star, sun, moon, and planet locations at the time of sighting.
Contents
Part One: How to Work A Sight-An Overview.
Introduction
Scope & Contents
Equipment
Almanac Data
Planning & Observations
Sextant Altitude Corrections
The Marco St. Hilaire Method
Amplitudes
Polaris
Sun Observations
Slight Reduction at Very Low Altitudes
Part Two: Tables, Examples and Forms.
The Navigational Stars
Index
Conversion of time to Arc.
176 pp., spiral bound
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