Ebook: Celestial navigation for deck officers and for yachtmasters ocean: A south african maritime safety authority. Part 1 - Navigation

Yachtmaster Ocean Services, 1999, 135 pagesApproved courseThe syllabuses for the Royal Yachting Association, Australian Yachting Federation, and SA Sailing/the Cruising Association of South Africa Yachtmaster Ocean' shorebased courses (there is no official practical Yachtmaster Ocean course) are almost identical. The syllabus, with recommended minimum time (in hours) to be spent on each aspect, and the detail of each, is contained in the RYA YACHTSMAN'S LOGBOOK, and is copied by the Australian and South African Associations.These course notes may be used as a teach yourself book, or with the course delivered by your course presenter. They are, nevertheless, complete notes and no extra reading is necessary.The sextant
The noon or meridian passage sight
The logic of non-meridian passage sights
The almanac for sun's gha and dec
Sight reduction tables
'Concise' tables (almanac)
The spherical or pzx triangle
The "sine/cosine" method
Plotting lines of position: position fixing
The moon, planets and stars
The moon
Planets
Stars
Planning star sights
Precession and nutation
Polaris, the pole star
Great circle sailing
Compass checking
Appendix: use of marine sight reduction tablesMeteorology
Appendix: synoptic chart; northern
North atlantic ocean
Appendix: synoptic chart; southern
South atlantic and indian oceans
Synoptic chart of my area
Weather bulletin schedule
Fog prediction
Berg winds
Passage planning and passage making 241 appendix a: suggested victualling record layout
Appendix: duty roster example
Satellite navigation systems
General
Solutions to examples in part 1 extracts from the nautical almanac
Date pages
Polaris tables
Concise sight reduction tables
'Yellow pages"; arc to time conversion table increments
Altitude correction tables, moon