Celestial for the Cruising Navigator

Celestial Navigation: A Practical Guide for Cruisers and Mariners

This book offers a thorough exploration of celestial navigation, built on the core principles of nautical astronomy and spherical trigonometry. Starting with the fundamentals of position and time, it systematically demonstrates how sextant observations, combined with accurate timekeeping, offer crucial checks and data for course, distance, and position determination.

The emphasis is on computational solutions …