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Evening Star Celestial Navigation (Jupiter and Polaris) Sight Reduction from a Tall Ship

Practical Navigator 6,672 lượt xem 1 year ago
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We are underway aboard the 134 foot tall ship Corwith Cramer, and we take evening star observations of Jupiter and Polaris with a sextant, and then we do all the math to reduce them to a fix using the techniques of celestial navigation.

Two quick notes: the watch time was actually 20 seconds fast, not slow, sorry for mis-stating that. The math is correct though. And I skip the GHA increments for Polaris since I'm just looking for a quick and dirty whole number of LHA.

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