Stark Tables For Clearing The Lunar Distance And Finding Universal Time By Sextant Observation Including A Convenient Way To Sharpe

Author : Bruce Stark
Publisher : Starpath Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780914025689
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stark Tables: For Clearing the Lunar Distance and Finding Universal Time by Sextant Observation Including a Convenient Way to Sharpe written by Bruce Stark and published by Starpath Publications. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial navigation is a way to find your latitude and longitude on earth using a sextant to measure the angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon. It has been used by mariners at sea and explorers on land for three hundred years, and it is still used today as a dependable backup to modern electronic navigation. Routine celestial navigation relies upon accurate time (Universal Time) to find the longitude of a position (latitude does not require time). Advanced celestial navigators can find longitude without knowing the time using a technique called Lunar Distance. In this technique, the sextant is used to measure the angular (diagonal) distance between the moon and another celestial body. Since this distance slowly changes as the moon moves eastward though the stars, it can be used to find the time of day that is needed to complete the longitude determination. The process of finding longitude from lunar distance, however, requires special tables that have not been published in the Nautical Almanac or other sources since the early 1900s. Although software solutions have been available, most advanced celestial navigators are very grateful to navigation historian Bruce Stark for creating these printed tables dedicated to this task. They have been used and tested by mariners for more than 15 years and are praised by experts for their ingenuity and ease of use in solving this complex navigation exercise-which all agree is the hallmark of an expert celestial navigator. With The Stark Tables in your nav station, you no longer have to fear losing power to your electronic navigation aids, nor are you dependent on accurate time from any official broadcast. Besides their practical use in back up navigation, historians have used these tables for years to interpret the logbooks of Lewis and Clark, David Thompson, James Cook, Matthew Flinders, George Vancouver, Nathaniel Bowditch, and other notable explorers and sea captains. "It is remarkable in this day when the very survival of celestial navigation seems in question, that an individual should suddenly appear on the scene and present to the world such a brilliant piece of work. Stark has rendered a great service to the celestial navigation community." - Robert Eno, The Navigator's Newsletter "Captain Cook would have relished using these tables, had they been available to him then." - George Huxtable, FRIN

Author : Janet Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Lunar Tables written by Janet Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Chauvenet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book New Method of Correcting Lunar Distances, and Improved Method of Finding the Error and Rate of a Chronometer by Equal Altitudes written by William Chauvenet and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W.H. Simms
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375157797
Total Pages : 149 pages
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Download or read book The Sextant and its Applications written by W.H. Simms and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

Author : James Gordon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book Lunar and Time Tables, Adapted to New, Short, and Accurate Methods for Finding the Longitude by Chronometers and Lunar Distances written by James Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Stark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914025214
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Stark Tables: For Clearing the Lunar Distance and Finding Universal Time by Sextant Observation Including a Convenient Way to Sharpe written by Bruce Stark and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celestial navigation is a way to find your latitude and longitude on earth using a sextant to measure the angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon. It has been used by mariners at sea and explorers on land for three hundred years, and it is still used today as a dependable backup to modern electronic navigation. Routine celestial navigation relies upon accurate time (Universal Time) to find the longitude of a position (latitude does not require time). Advanced celestial navigators can find longitude without knowing the time using a technique called Lunar Distance. In this technique, the sextant is used to measure the angular (diagonal) distance between the moon and another celestial body. Since this distance slowly changes as the moon moves eastward though the stars, it can be used to find the time of day that is needed to complete the longitude determination. The process of finding longitude from lunar distance, however, requires special tables that have not been published in the Nautical Almanac or other sources since the early 1900s. Although software solutions have been available, most advanced celestial navigators are very grateful to navigation historian Bruce Stark for creating these printed tables dedicated to this task. They have been used and tested by mariners for more than 15 years and are praised by experts for their ingenuity and ease of use in solving this complex navigation exercise-which all agree is the hallmark of an expert celestial navigator. With The Stark Tables in your nav station, you no longer have to fear losing power to your electronic navigation aids, nor are you dependent on accurate time from any official broadcast. Besides their practical use in back up navigation, historians have used these tables for years to interpret the logbooks of Lewis and Clark, David Thompson, James Cook, Matthew Flinders, George Vancouver, Nathaniel Bowditch, and other notable explorers and sea captains. "It is remarkable in this day when the very survival of celestial navigation seems in question, that an individual should suddenly appear on the scene and present to the world such a brilliant piece of work. Stark has rendered a great service to the celestial navigation community." - Robert Eno, The Navigator's Newsletter "Captain Cook would have relished using these tables, had they been available to him then." - George Huxtable, FRIN

Author : Sarah Paul
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481833356
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Past Life Tarot written by Sarah Paul and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-12-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains five different layouts for past life readings with tarot cards, an extensive set of tarot interpretations with past life meanings incorporated into them, and a separate list of special interpretations for past life readings only! This material is reprinted from the major tarot textbook SAMSARA TAROT, Readings for the Reincarnating Soul, here conveniently reduced to a small, inexpensive, and easy-to-use past life tarot book. Life themes run from one incarnated life to the next. See how with the The 3 Card Life Theme Reading. Use intuition to see life scenes play before your eyes like a movie with the 6 Card Intuited Past Life Reading! Use the easy-to-interpret Standard 14 Card Past Life Reading to present 14 clearly delineated aspects of the life. Combine intuition with research in the smart 10 Card Past Life Circle that produces a detailed past life dated in historical time and specifically placed in a geographical area. See three lives in succession in the 15 Card Three Life Reading. All for a great price. Check it out!

Author : John William Norie
Publisher : Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson
ISBN 13 : 9780852889459
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book Norie's Nautical Tables written by John William Norie and published by Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous set of mathematical tables was first published in 1803. It has been a bestseller ever since, and despite developments in electronic navigation it remains an essential requirement for anyone learning and practising astro-navigation. Last updated in 1994, the editor, George Blance, has worked for some time on the modernisation of all the tables for this major new edition. New tables have been included and obsolete ones deleted to conform with the changing techniques of navigation, with the aim of improving the accuracy of the calculated position and reducing the tedium of the calculation. All the tables required for coastal and deep sea navigation are included. A simple uniform method of interpolation for all the trigonometrical tables is used. Certain tables and data are also included which are not readily available on board ship or are only used in the examination room. The section 'Seaports of the World' has also been extensively updated and restructured with several hundred additional ports. The ports are listed geographically in the following order from Arctic Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, the Atlantic coast of Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa, East Africa, Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Indian sub-continent, the Far East, Australasia, the west coast of North and South America and finally the east coast of North and South America. At the back of the section is an index of the seaports.

Author : Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Author : Courtney G. Brooks
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140938
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book Chariots for Apollo written by Courtney G. Brooks and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history by a trio of experts is the definitive reference on the Apollo spacecraft and lunar modules. It traces the vehicles' design, development, and operation in space. More than 100 photographs and illustrations.