Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home Study Course

Description

by David Burch

This book is used in the Starpath Navigation Course. The course itself contains many other products and online resources. But this is merely the book which is an excellent text.

The 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. 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 besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, and more. At the end of this book, you will be ready for ocean navigation. SC, 2015, 294 pgs. SW 2.0