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Celestial Navigation.
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SeaSources Celestial Navigation Training
Videos
This course is designed to help you prepare yourself to pass the
U. S. Coast Guard examination on Celestial Navigation for the upon
oceans endorsement. The lessons presented are meant to be taken
in order by lesson number to work your way through the course. All
of the videos are now available here to view for free. They can
still be downloaded and installed for viewing offline through the
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Click here to Preview Navigation Problems, Celestial Observations
Questions
Introduction
Video
Lesson 1: Corrections
To Sextant Reading
Lesson
2: Dip Correction
Lesson 3: Apparent
Altitude
Lesson
4: Time, Watch Time
Lesson
5: Time, Chronometer Time
Lesson 6: Finding
GHA and Declination
Lesson 7:
Increments and
Corrections Sun.
Lesson
8: Increments
and Corrections Star.
Lesson
9: Assumed
Position and Local Hour Angle
Lesson 10: Finding Computed
Altitude and Azimuth
Lesson
11: Interpolation
Lesson 12: Altitude
Intercept
Lesson 13:
Position
Plotting Sheets
Lesson 14:
Plotting
Lines of Position
Lesson 15:
Combining all the lessons so far into a complete sight reduction
problem. I still have a few details to tweak on this one but you
can get the general idea.
Lesson
16: Finding Deviation
or Gyro Error
Lesson 17:
Finding Azimuth by 229
For Compass Correction
Lesson 18:
Amplitudes
Lesson 19: Predicting Zone Time of Local apparent Noon
Lesson
20: Latitude by Meridian Altitude
Lesson
21: Latitude and Azimuth by Polaris
Lesson
22: Running Fixes
Lesson
23: Predicting Time of Sunrise / Sunset
Lesson 24: Star
Identification.
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Listed below is a table of contents
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study. Click on the "Enter Online Study" link above to begin preparing
for your exam.
From the pull down menu in the online
study select from the following topics:
Deck Examination Questions as of March 24, 2014
Regulations
Celestial Navigation
- Navigation Problems
- AMPLITUDE
- AMPLITUDE/ANY OTHER BODY
- JUPITER
- MOON
- SATURN
- VENUS
- AZIMUTH
- ANY OTHER BODY
- POLARIS
- SUN
- FIX OR RUNNING FIX
- LATITUDE BY MERIDIAN TRANSIT
- EX-MERIDIAN
- LOWER TRANSIT - OTHER
- SUN
- LATITUDE BY POLARIS
- MISC. PROBLEMS
- STAR IDENTIFICATION
- STAR SELECTION
- TIME OF MERIDIAN TRANSIT
- SECOND ESTIMATE
- ZONE TIME CALCULATIONS
- Navigational Astronomy
- CHARACTERISTICS OF CELESTIAL BODIES
- MOON
- MOTIONS OF CELESTIAL BODIES
- PLANETS
- STARS
- SUN
- COORDINATE SYSTEMS
- CELESTIAL EQUATOR SYSTEM
- EARTH SYSTEM
- ECLIPTIC SYSTEM
- HORIZON SYSTEM
- NAVIGATIONAL TRIANGLE
- ALTITUDES-HORIZONS
- MISCELLANEOUS
- SIDES/ANGLES
- TIME
- APPARENT TIME, EQ. TIME
- SIDEREAL TIME, LUNAR TIME, ETC.
- SOLAR TIME, GMT, LMT, ZT
- Navigational Procedures
- CELESTIAL NAVIGATION PROCEDURES
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License exam which includes this module, you should work through
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