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Celestial Navigation | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Cunliffe
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 622168
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 0.2
ISBN: 1898660751
Dewey Decimal Number: 797
EAN: 9781898660750
ASIN: 1898660751
Publication Date: July 31, 2006
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Product Description
Celestial navigation is the one of the oldest of the mariner's arts - and one of the most awe-inspiring. To guide a small boat across the trackless oceans using only a simple measuring device - the sextant - and the knowledge of the sun, moon and stars is a skill that borders on the magical. In these pages Tom Cuncliffe shows how to master the art in easy stages. Starting from a sound foundation of basic concepts and definitions, he moves on to the hardware: the sextant and how to use it. within a few pages he has you down on the beach, shooting the sun. From there it is a short step to working out your latitude from a noon sight, and learning how to plot a position from observation of the sun, planets, moon or stars - wherever you may be on the world's oceans. "He writes with the authority of a man who knows that his methods work in the most testing of all examination rooms, a small boat sailing on the open ocean."
?Bill Anderson, Formerly Rya Training manager
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 Navigation for Starters April 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a first attempt book. This is a short, consice review course for someone who has a working understanding of the art and maybe some prior experience and just needs a reminder or a refresher ....a better approach to the examples, more grahics are needed. This is my 2nd purchase for a beginners book. I'll keep looking.
 Get your bearings on CelNav March 24, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Celestial navigation, practiced by seamen for thousands of years, seems to be a daunting topic encompassing spherical trigonometry and lots of tables to look up values.
Tom Cunliffe managed to get everything you need to know to use celestial navigation to get across an ocean or to do some sun or star shots for fun into a small volume. This is without question the best book to learn the basics how to use a sextant, calculate your position from the sun, multiple stars, even the moon.
You will need a Nautical Almanach and Site Reduction Tables Pub. 249 but no other books to get started. Also get some Universal Plotting Sheets and you are ready.
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