Celestial Navigation

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SKU: WWN128

$18.95

Paperback, Jeff Toghill, 110 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 9780393302943

Devoted to the practical and presented so even the most non-mathematical navigator can develop skill and competence. Includes techniques for checking compass and sextants.

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Stark Tables for Clearing the Lunar Distance

SKU: STR020

$39.00

Paperback, Bruce Stark, 315 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780914025214

Celestial navigation is a way to find your latitude and longitude on earth using a sextant to measure the angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon. It has been used by mariners at sea and explorers on land for three hundred years, and it is still used today as a dependable backup to...

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How to Use Plastic Sextants

SKU: STR022

$19.95

Paperback, David Burch, 106 pages, 7.5 x 0.2 x 9, 9780914025245

Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by measuring the angular distance between...

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Celestial Navigation by H.0. 249

SKU: CMP208

$9.95

Paperback, John E. Milligan, 101 pages, 7 X 10, 9780870331916

Practical guide to this popular sight reduction method. Basic, encouraging approach to tools and techniques.

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Star to Steer Her By

SKU: CMP244

$18.50

Paperback, Edward J. Bergin, 202 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9780870333095

For the beginner, this gives straightforward explanations every step of the way to confident, successful celestial navigation. Widely used as textbook.

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Sextant Handbook, 2nd edition

SKU: INT310

$21.00

Paperback, Bruce Bauer, 192 pages, 6 x 9, 9780070052192

Not a celestial navigation textbook, but rather an essential guide to the mechanics of sextant use, adjustment, repair, history as well as buying guide to both new and used instruments. Illustrations.

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Celestial Navigation in a Nutshell

SKU: SHP018

$16.95

Paperback, Hewitt Schlereth, 133 pages, 7 x 10, 9781574090581

A easy-to-use guide that takes the reader through the basic methods involved in position finding using sun, moon and star sights. Uses several examples and situations to make this an effective self-teaching text.

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Celestial Navigation, 3rd edition

SKU: WIL061

$19.95

Paperback, Tom Cunliffe, 65 pages, 6.75 x 9.5, 9780470666333

As romantic sounding as sailing to Tahiti did centuries ago, using the sun, moon, planets, and stars to guide one's boat on the seas is enjoying a comeback. For those who do not wish to be caught short when modern technology fails on board, knowing how to chart a path with the aid of a sextant...

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Long Term Almanac 2000-2050

SKU: STR015

$29.95

Paperback, Geoffrey Kolbe, 111 pages, 7 x 10, 9780914025108

The ideal one-book navigation back-up for experienced navigators. Includes almanac data for sun and stars, valid until 2050. Also has Sight Reduction Tables and Altitude Correction Tables. An essential back-up for serious celestial navigation.

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The Nautical Almanac 1981

SKU: IHP_1981

$29.95

Paperback, USNO Nautical Almanac Office, H. M. Nautical Almanac Office, 318 pages, 8.5 x 11, 9781937196189

This is a print-on-demand title and is NOT RETURNABLE

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Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home Study Course, Second Edition

SKU: STR040

$39.00

Paperback, David Burch, 296 pages, 8.3 x 0.6 x 11, 9780914025467

This book has been used for 30 years, updated periodically as needed. More than 20,000 students have successfully learned ocean navigation from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe. This book covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the...

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Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who Mapped the World's Oceans

SKU: HRW112

$16.99

Paperback, David Barrie, 384 pages, 5.3 x 0.9 x 8, 9780062279354

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery—an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer,...

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Celestial Navigation for Yachtsmen: 13th edition

SKU: ACB147

$17.00

Paperback, Mary Blewitt, 96 pages, 5 x 7, 9781472942876

Don't leave shore without this easy-to-use celestial favorite navigation primer--it could save your life! Huge advances in electronic navigation since the original publication of Celestial Navigation have transported offshore navigators to a world of press-button convenience....

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Norie's Nautical Tables 2022 EDITION

SKU: IMR199

$79.95

Hardcover, edited by Capt AG Blance, 568 pages, 8 x 11, 9781786793591

Norie’s Nautical Tables is the essential requirement for anyone learning and practicing astronavigation. Since J W Norie published the first edition of his Complete Set of Nautical Tables and Epitome of Practical Navigation in 1803, many changes to the tables have been necessary in both...

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