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Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home Study Course (2nd Edition)

Starpath Publications

PUB-9780914025467

by David Burch

This book covers 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. Includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well. Plus this book covers other crucial factors of ocean navigation besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, etc. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation. Thousands of students have successfully learned celestial from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe.

ISBN: 9780914025467

8.5x11 Book

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