Self-taught Navigation: Ten Easy Steps to Master Celestial Navigation |
Contents
A Bit More on Time and the Almanac | 21 |
Latitude by the Noon Sight | 27 |
To Shoot the Planets the Moon the Stars | 33 |
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Common terms and phrases
accurate actually Alpheratz Altair Altitude Apparent Sextant Arcturus Assumed Position Azimuth Betelgeuse Big Bear bright Star celestial bodies Celestial Equator chart clock constellation Course Line crew D.R. Longitude daily white Dead Reckoning Dip correction distance Earth East exact Latitude exactly four minutes full degree Full Hour Meridian galaxy going Greenwich head horizon Hour Angle Hs angle intercept Line of Position Local Hour Angle look Main correction Markab means measure minus minutes and seconds minutes of arc Moon nautical miles navigation Star nearest night Noon Sight North or South Orion Planets Point of Aries Polaris Pole position line remember Rhumb Line sail ship ship's shoot side simple Sirius Spica Stop Watch subtract Sun column Sun's Declination tion tude Twilight West Longitude white page white pages zero