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Celestial navigation is an ancient skill, one that save lives when electronics fail. But the conventional shipboard library requires six volumes of sight reduction tables for world coverage, plus a star finder, an almanac, and instructions, with the whole kit costing up to $300. For thousands of sailors, The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator is the perfect solution: Just one handy volume has all the nautical almanac (40 pages) and sight reduction (60 pages) information they are likely to need, good for 1999-2003, plus instructions and a star finder.
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"A practical, convenient, and economical solution for the mariner who wants a backup system to GPS that contains all the essential instructions and data." Foundation for the Art of Navigation
Your All-in-One Navigational Toolkit
The ancient skill of celestial navigation has reliably guided seafarers for centuries and is still a source of pride and respect among mariners. In this era of electronic navigation, it remains the perfect backup system, enabling you to determine your position if the GPS malfunctions or your boat loses electrical power.
Specifically designed for the novice or rusty celestial navigator, The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator replaces $300 worth of guides and almanacs traditionally required by celestial navigators, and includes a star finder; a five-year nautical almanac (2003 - 2007) for determining precise star, sun, moon, or planet locations at the time of sighting; and sight reduction tables for crunching the numbers and producing a fix anywhere in the world.
"The only complete self-contained work available. When your electronic navigation fails, 'steering by the stars' will guide you safely to your destination." Sydney Afloat (Australia) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book provides, in a compact form, all the essential instructions, almanac data, and tables for finding the latitude and longitude of a ship by celestial navigation and also the means for making a compass check, for a five-year period. Read the first page
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This book provides, in a compact form, all the essential instructions, almanac data, and tables for finding the latitude and longitude of a ship by celestial navigation and also the means for making a compass check, for a five-year period. Read the first page
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
This book has it all, almanac, tables, starfinder, in short, everything need to do sight reductions. A fantastic value !
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If you don't know your stars you will! once you buy!
29 Dec 2001
Format:Spiral-bound
Even if you new to the stars, you will no longer be in the dark! This book guides you through it all. It lays open allowing you to see what it is you are looking at and doing, great for both the novice & the all knowing. I enjoyed it just on the porch so when I used it underway at sea it was just as wonderful! Very much worth the price this book has it all!
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
THE book to have onboard for celestial navigation
3 Feb 1999
Format:Spiral-bound
This book has it all, almanac, tables, starfinder, in short, everything need to do sight reductions. A fantastic value !
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not a book for a beginner
10 Jan 2005
Format:Spiral-bound
While Mr. Bennett clearly qualifies as as authority in celestial navigation, this book is not well suited for beginners. The narrative is a bit to succint, forcing the reader to try and and "fill in the blanks" in order to understand what the author has stated. Modern publishing makes it easier to present tables and examples with the narrative; however, in this book the tables and examples are at the rear of the book, which makes switching back and forth difficult. The main advantage of this book are the tables. In my opinion this is a good resource book and a celestial navigation reference guide, but not as your first celestial navigation primer.
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