Celestial Navigation When Your Gps Fails

, by Breach, Mark

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ISBN: 9781412026673 | 1412026679
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/31/2004

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Abbreviations and Symbols

(1)

Preface

(1)

Our Place among the Stars

(6)

Celestial Coordinates

(2)

Apparent Movement of the Stars

(2)

Time

(2)

From Sky to Ocean

(5)

How Many Lines?

(1)

Under a Lucky Star

(1)

Where Two Lines Cross

(2)

When Only the Sun is Shining

(2)

Tools for the Task

(8)

The Sextant

(2)

Using the Sextant

(2)

Sextant Errors and Corrections

(2)

Finding the Time

(2)

Necessary Reductions

(4)

Dip

(1)

Refraction

(2)

Semi-diameter of Sun and Moon

(1)

Parallax

(2)

Practical Position Finding

(36)

Quality Assurance of the Observations

(1)

Find the Average of the Observations of Time and Sextant Angle

(1)

Apply a Calibration Correction to the Stopwatch Time

(1)

Identify Body and Compute the Local Hour Angle

(1)

Apply Corrections to the Observed Sextant Angle

(1)

Calculate the Sextant Angle that would have been observed at the DR Position at the Observation Time

(1)

Plot a Position Line on the Chart

(2)

Finding Altitude Without a Calculator

(5)

On the Wrong Planet?

(3)

Bodies on the Meridian - Easy Astro

(3)

Practise in Your Own Back Yard

(1)

Reduction to WGS84

(2)

The Effect of the Sloping Horizon

(1)

Check your Compass with the Sun

(1)

Preparing for the Voyage

Paperwork

How to Use the Forms

(49)

Position Line from the Sun

(3)

Position Line from the Moon

(1)

Position Line from a Planet

(1)

Position Line from a Star

(1)

Altitude by Tables

(1)

Position Line Plot

(1)

How to Use the Tables

(6)

Ephemeral Tables

(3)

Permanent Tables

(3)

Some Concepts and Formulae

(10)

Solar and Sidereal Days

(1)

The Solar System and Kepler's Laws

(1)

The Obliquity of the Ecliptic

(2)

The Apparent Path of the Sun

(2)

Spherical Trigonometry

(1)

The Astronomical Triangle

(1)

Applying Spherical Trigonometry to the Astronomical Triangle

(3)

A Worked Example

(9)

The Forms and Tables

(55)

Forms

Position Line from Sun

(1)

Position Line from Moon

(1)

Position Line from Planet

(1)

Position Line from Star

(1)

Altitude by Tables

(1)

Position Line Plot

(1)

Permanent Tables

Sun and Planets Increments

(29)

Mercury Double Differences

122

(1)

Moon GHA Increments

123

(2)

Moon Declination Increments

125

(2)

Moon Parallax Increments

127

(2)

Refraction and Dip

129

(1)

Interpolation

130

(1)

Time to Angle

131

(1)

F tables

132

(9)

Index

141

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Celestial Navigation When Your Gps Fails

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