CELESTIAL NAVIGATION COURSE
Starpath
This course covers how to find one's 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 course,
which also includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well.
This course includes 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 course, 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.
The course comes on an interactive CD. In going through the course
lessons, you will be able to click on areas of interest, or on something you
want to know more about. You will not be left studying on your own. Registered
for the course, you are just a phone call away from individual personal help
whenever you need it. Also, with your registration you will receive a "webcard".
This allows you to access all of the resources of the Starpath School. From
time to time Online Courses are given to which you may access. There will be
assigments given and discussion following completion. You may even email comments
and questions. Starpath plans to establish a chatroom for course discussion.
The course comes on a CD, and requires a PC with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista SW 1 lb.