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Step-By Step To Download this book:Click The Button "DOWNLOAD"Sign UP registration to access Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home Study Course,Second Edition & UNLIMITED BOOKSDOWNLOAD as many books as you like (personal use)CANCEL the membership at ANY TIME if not satisfiedJoin Over 80.000 & Happy Readers.[F.R.E.E D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D R.E.A.D] Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home StudyCourse, Second Edition [[FREE] [READ] [DOWNLOAD]]
[F.R.E.E D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D R.E.A.D] Celestial Navigation: A Complete Home Study Course,Second Edition [[FREE] [READ] [DOWNLOAD]][F.R.E.ED.O.W.N.L.O.A.DR.E.A.D] CelestialNavigation: AComplete HomeStudy Course,Second Edition[[FREE] [READ][DOWNLOAD]]DescriptionBWS's regular columnist David Burch is the founder and president of Starpath Navigation inSeattle, Washington. A Fellow of the U.S. Institute of Navigation and the Royal Institute ofNavigation, he has spent his career writing about and instructing mariners and sailors in the artand science of navigation.Â His book Celestial Navigation has recently been updated and reissuedin a second edition. Although the original text was complete, Burch has been able to expand andimprove the book both graphically and contextually.Â Designed to be a home study course incelestial navigation , the book takes you from the very basics of how to use a sextant to the mostadvanced calculations. The beauty of celestial navigation is the self reliance the skill providessailors at sea. If you have a reliable time piece and a way to check time with a battery poweredshortwave radio, you can determine your position on your own anywhere at sea. So, if you aredays from landfall and struck by lightning, which shorts out all of your electronics, you can stillmake harbor safely and in a timely way using only the sun, moon and stars as your guide.Celestialnavigation also links us with ancient mariners who first sailed across oceans and created theworld's discovery and trading routes. These intrepid sailors were intimately familiar with the naturalworld around them and the significance in the earth's movement in the solar system and galaxy.Instead of sailing with heads down staring at LED screens, they sailed with eyes uplift ed to thesky, which is not a bad way to see the world.Â Celestial navigation is not hard. Using Burch's bookas a guide, you will learn how to take and calculate noon sights, morning and afternoon sun sights,twilight moon sights and the classic dawn and evening star sights. You'll figure out how to use anautical almanac and sight reductions tables so you can make the simple calculations. You willLearn how to use a universal plotting sheet to create lines of position , running fixes and thevaluable 'cocked hats' derived from three or more star sights. And, you will learn about theheavens. You will come to know the sun and moon in ways you never did before. You will learn toidentify the brighter planets and tell them apart and to identify the primary navigation stars and theconstellations they reside in . Along the way, you will know your place in the world a little better,both literally when at sea and figuratively every time you stargaze on a brilliant summer night. --ÂBluewater Sailing Magazine, July 2015'...the second edition of a home study course that Burch
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