Celestial Navigation Made Easy: Using a Pocket Calculator

About this book

Celestial navigation has never been easier. The modern mariner can be too modern for his own good particularly when hes a thousand miles offshore and his expensive electronic navigation systems are disabled by lightning. Thats where CELESTIAL NAVIGATION MADE EASY comes in. Beginning with a brief outline of the solar system the longtime blue-water sailor Francois Meyrier provides a step-by-step guide to finding your position on the ocean both with and without a pocket calculator. Meyriers ingenious method calls for only elementary math so there is no need for lengthy sight reductions. Clear carefully drawn illustrations will help orient novices and provide a crucial brush-up for old salts. Chapters cover the sextant weather longitude and latitude basic trigonometry azimuth meridian troubleshooting exercises and answers and a chart of star locations. No sailor should be without CELESTIAL NAVIGATION MADE EASY.