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Introduction to celestial navigation

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Introduction to celestial navigation/ by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen.
Author:	Olsen, Alexander Arnfinn.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2024.,
Description:	xxxii, 337 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Introducing the Celestial Sphere -- Time Systems -- Practical Sights: Planning, Taking, Reducing and Plotting -- Observing Celestial Sights using an Artificial Horizon -- Identification of Heavenly Bodies -- Meridian Passage and Polaris -- Rising and Setting of Heavenly Bodies -- Refraction, Dip and Mirage -- Errors in Celestial Position Lines -- Sky at Night -- Understanding Celestial Sphere Terminology -- Hour Angels -- Theory of Time.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Nautical astronomy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47542-9
ISBN:	9783031475429

Introduction to celestial navigation
Olsen, Alexander Arnfinn.

Introduction to celestial navigation[electronic resource] /by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2024. - xxxii, 337 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Springer series on naval architecture, marine engineering, shipbuilding and shipping,v. 152194-8453 ;. - Springer series on naval architecture, marine engineering, shipbuilding and shipping ;v. 15..

Introducing the Celestial Sphere -- Time Systems -- Practical Sights: Planning, Taking, Reducing and Plotting -- Observing Celestial Sights using an Artificial Horizon -- Identification of Heavenly Bodies -- Meridian Passage and Polaris -- Rising and Setting of Heavenly Bodies -- Refraction, Dip and Mirage -- Errors in Celestial Position Lines -- Sky at Night -- Understanding Celestial Sphere Terminology -- Hour Angels -- Theory of Time.

This book focuses on Coastal and Ocean Navigation with an emphasis on celestial navigation techniques as a 'back up' in the event digital technologies fail.It deals with the main themes and principles of celestial navigation (including time) It covers the syllabus for deck officers working towards the Officer of the Watch (OOW) certificate of competence (COC) awarded by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), and for Royal Navy navigation officers working towards achieving the equivalent Navigational Watch Certificate (NWC) The NWC is equivalent to the certificate awarded by the MCA to OOWs in the Merchant Service under the international Standardisation of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) agreements. The detailed theory of celestial navigation is provided.

ISBN: 9783031475429

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-47542-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1486031
Nautical astronomy.

LC Class. No.: VK555

Dewey Class. No.: 527

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