Cover

Preface

1.- The Basics of Celestial Navigation

2.- Altitude Measurement

3.- The Geographic Position of a Celestial Body

4.- Finding One's Position (Sight Reduction)

5.- Finding the Position of a Traveling Vessel

6.- Methods for Latitude and Longitude Measurement

7.- Finding Time and Longitude by Lunar Distances

8.- Rise, Set, Twilight

9.- Geodetic Aspects of Celestial Navigation

10.- Spherical Trigonometry

11.- The Navigational Triangle

12.- Other Navigational Formulas

13.- Mercator Charts and Plotting Sheets

14.- Magnetic Declination

15.- Ephemerides of the Sun

16.- Navigational Errors

Appendix

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