The Cutterman’s Guide to Basic Celestial Navigation
Year: 2016 Language: English Author: Christopher D. Nolan Genre: Textbook Edition: 2nd Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 126 Description: According to current Coast Guard Navigation Standards (Chapter 6), the required evolutions for WAGBs, WMSLs, WHECs, WMECs, and OCONUS WLBs are: a. Determine the time of sunrise and sunset. b. Determine the time of moonrise and moonset. c. Determine gyro error by azimuth of the sun or other celestial body. d. Determine gyro error by amplitude of the sun or other celestial body. e. Obtain an LOP from the sun. f. Observe Local Apparent Noon. Reduce sighting and determine latitude. g. Obtain the ship’s position by reducing celestial objects to a fix. h. Compute latitude and gyro error by Polaris. This can be a daunting list. It is helpful to break it up into the following four “big picture” categories and to approach the problem by learning one category at a time, instead of learning “Celestial Navigation” all at once. Here is the recommended breakdown of tasks, and the order in which they should be learned, and how they are presented in this book.
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The Cutterman’s Guide to Basic Celestial Navigation
Language: English
Author: Christopher D. Nolan
Genre: Textbook
Edition: 2nd
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 126
Description: According to current Coast Guard Navigation Standards (Chapter 6), the required evolutions for WAGBs, WMSLs, WHECs, WMECs, and OCONUS WLBs are:
a. Determine the time of sunrise and sunset.
b. Determine the time of moonrise and moonset.
c. Determine gyro error by azimuth of the sun or other celestial body.
d. Determine gyro error by amplitude of the sun or other celestial body. e. Obtain an LOP from the sun.
f. Observe Local Apparent Noon. Reduce sighting and determine latitude. g. Obtain the ship’s position by reducing celestial objects to a fix.
h. Compute latitude and gyro error by Polaris.
This can be a daunting list. It is helpful to break it up into the following four “big picture” categories and to approach the problem by learning one category at a time, instead of learning “Celestial Navigation” all at once. Here is the recommended breakdown of tasks, and the order in which they should be learned, and how they are presented in this book.
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