Celestial Navigation - A Home Study Course

by David Burch

Learn 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, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, etc. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation.

More than 20,000 students have successfully learned celestial from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. Besides ocean sailors, record-setting ocean rowers and deck officers from Navy warships have used this text to master celestial navigation.

Practice exercises, tables selections, full solutions are included. Suggested work forms and plotting sheets are available online at no charge. www.starpath.com/celnavbook.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science

476 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 15, 2008

Reviews

[Ahmed Abd El Hfeez]

Good

[Vince Mattaliano · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lots of info but NOT for beginners.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

This could be shorter and clearer if he just explained the strategy but instead walks through the series of calculations that is his implementation of the strategy. Nonetheless, he gets across how to navigate celestially.