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Blown away / Herb Payson.

By: Payson, Herb [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Stanford Maritime, 1980Copyright date: ©1980Description: 261 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0540074039 (hardback).Subject(s): Payson, Herb | Payson, Nancy | Voyages around the world | Voyages and travels | Sailors -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 797.124092
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Forewords
  • Preface
  • Editor's Note
  • The Theory
  • The Heavenly Bodies
  • The Geographical Position (GP)
  • Declination Hour Angle
  • The Zenith
  • The Horizon Altitude
  • Zenith Distance
  • The Elevated Pole Azimuth and Azimuth Angle
  • Great Circles Universal Time (UT)
  • The Position Line Spherical Triangles
  • The Intercept Sextant
  • Altitude and Observed Altitude Dip
  • Refraction
  • Semi-Diameter
  • Parallax
  • The Practice Almanacs and Tables
  • Almanacs; Sight Reduction Tables
  • A Sun Sight in Winter Using the Sextant
  • Recording the Sights
  • Correcting the Data
  • Using the Almanac
  • Using the Tables
  • Plotting the Sight
  • A Sun Sight in Summer
  • A Moon Sight
  • A Running Fix Planet
  • Sights Meridian
  • Sights Star
  • Sights Sidereal
  • Hour Angle
  • Declinations
  • Twilight and Preparation of Star Sights
  • Using the Meridian Passage
  • Pole Star Sights
  • Notes
  • Sextants Calculators
  • "Short" Sight
  • Reduction Tables
  • Practice Sights Plotting
  • Sheets
  • Appendices
  • A Nautical Almanac, 1990, for December 6, 7, 8
  • B Nautical Almanac, 1990, for July 15, 16, 17
  • C Nautical Almanac, Increments and Corrections for 56m and 57m
  • D Nautical Almanac, Altitude Correction Tables, 10 degrees - 90 degrees - Sun, Stars, Planets
  • E Nautical Almanac, Altitude Correction Tables, 0 degrees - 35 degrees - Moon and 35 degrees - 90 degrees - Moon F. H.O. 249 Vol. III for Lat. 52 degrees, Declination (15 degrees to 29 degrees) CONTRARY name to Latitude, LHA 69 to 0
  • G H.O. 249 Vol. II or III Table 5
  • H Nautical Almanac, 1993, for October 10, 11, 12
  • I H.O. 249 Vol. I, Epoch 1995.0, for LAT 33 degrees N, LHA Aries 0 to 179
  • Index