Thanks to everyone who is still persevering with the Celestial Navigation notes. I hope you have picked up a few things. You might have noticed a couple of the videos that I have linked through to belong to the Vanderbilt University who have a fantastic free online Celestial Navigation course. They whip through the topics…
More angles today… sigh – I do wish I had paid more attention in 5th form maths. Sorry Mr Sanders… Let’s learn about Azimuth angles. As at the stage of typing this first paragraph of the post I personally have no idea what they are. Time to learn!
There are quite a few bits and bobs required for Celestial Navigation. So in today’s post we are going to take a look at what we need:
We have been jumping around topics a bit, so I thought it might be best to put together a bit of a summary of what we have learned so far, what we still have to cover and how it is all eventually going to come together. It has certainly been useful for me to break…
Boy today’s study has got me dusting off the cobwebs of my brain. I don’t like maths, and with the added complication of degrees, minutes and seconds… arraggh! So Local Hour Angle – LHA… “What is that!?” I hear you cry. Well let’s find out together…
We take a short side track from our Celestial Navigation posts to do some quick revision on position lines and plotting positions on the chart. To work out our position by using a sextant sight, we first need to have an estimated position. This is worked out by using Dead Reckoning – or an educated…
A couple of years ago, myself and a group of friends were on a tiny island called Pitt Island in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. We got up really early, and climbed up the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise. With the island’s 11 residents still fast asleep in the village…
