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"With concise sight reduction tables"--Cover.
Author : Geoffrey Kolbe
Publisher : Starpath Publications
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 2012-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780914025375
"With concise sight reduction tables"--Cover.
Author : Geoffrey Kolbe
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780914025108
Author : Geoffrey Kolbe
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Ephemerides
ISBN : 9780953753710
Author : John Karl
Publisher : Paradise Cay Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780939837755
Many books on celestial navigation take shortcuts in explaining concepts; incorrect diagrams and discussion are often used for the sake of moving the student along quickly. This book tells the true story-and the whole story. It conveys celestial navigation concepts clearly and in the shortest possible time.It's tailored for navigation in the GPS age-a time of computers, calculators, and web resources. Although it covers all of the traditional methods of 'working a sight, ' the primary thrust is using the (under $10) scientific calculator. By using equations that you key into your calculator, this book guides you toward a better understanding of the concepts of celestial navigation.You will learn novel ways to plot lines of position, ways to check your sextant accurately by star sights, and how to tell what time it is from a moon sight. The many appendices are a treasure of references and explanations of abstract ideas. Celestial Navigation is a crucial skill for the offshore navigator to know, this book provides the shortest path to that knowledge.
Author : Hewitt Schlereth
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781574090581
Hewitt Schlereth is a writer and sailing enthusiast.
Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2006-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780160757167
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last Presents data for use in astronomical navigation at sea. Includes Jupiter, Saturn, selected stars, our Sun, our Moon, twilight, sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, and Moonset. Includes "Index to Selected Stars, 2007" and "Altitude correction tables for Sun, Stars, Planets" on a separate sheet.. This volume can be used as a comparison with current volumes of this title. Related products: US Army Corps of Engineer (USACE) Navigational Charts collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/transportation-navigation/almanacs-navigation-guides/usace-navigational-charts Almanacs & Navigation Guide resources can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/transportation-navigation/almanacs-navigation-guides Other products produced by the U.S. Navy, Naval Observatory (USNO) can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/927
Author : United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office
Publisher : University Science Books
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781891389450
This well-schooled text provides a detailed description of how to perform practical astronomy or spherical astronomy. It is an authoritative source on astronomical phenomena and calendars.
Author : John Seymour Letcher
Publisher :
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Nautical astronomy
ISBN : 9780877420828
Author : David Wallace-Wells
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 052557672X
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD “The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times “The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.”—The Washington Post “The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1107611806
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.