Getting Started in Celestial Navigation (The Noon Sight for Latitude)

This video is part 2 of the "Getting Started in Celestial Navigation" video series.

Part 2 of "Getting Started in Celestial Navigation," (The Noon Sight) describes the process of finding latitude at noon from the sun, and introduces the concepts of geographic position, zenith distance, and declination. It also briefly introduces the Nautical Almanac, and features three example problems.

Here are some additional resources pertaining to this lesson:

1. Wikipedia "Geographic Position" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system

2. Wikipedia "Zenith" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith

3. Wikipedia "Equinox" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox

4. Wikipedia "Declination" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declination

5. Wikipedia "Lahaina Noon" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahaina_Noon

6. Local Apparent Noon - http://oceannavigation.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-determine-your-latitude-by-local.html

7. The Bridge Refresher Guidebook (with a lesson on local apparent noon) - http://www.scribd.com/doc/84172468/
Navigation Materials
All example problems in this course use the 1981 Training Nautical Almanac and HO229 (there are three example problems in this lesson).

1. The 1981 Nautical Almanac

Hardcopy 1981 Training Nautical Almanac - http://www.amazon.com/The-Nautical-Almanac-1981-Training/dp/0914025260

Note you can also download for free or minimal price online by searching google, for example https://ebookpie.com/ebooks/300803-the-nautical-almanac-1981-for-training-purposes-only. You can download it from lapware.com if you pay the monthly fee for access. Sidenote - lapware is an amazing training tool!

2. HO229 - Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation

Free download - http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pubCode=0013
3. Other materials of use

Free download of Bowditch (The American Practical Navigator) - http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pubCode=0002

USCG licensing website. This contains all the possible questions on USCG exams - http://www.uscg.mil/nmc/training/exams/deck/default.asp

The book I used to learn celestial navigation myself, and I think one of the best celestial navigation books out there, is "Common Sense Celestial Navigation" by Hewitt Schlereth - http://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Celestial-Navigation-Hewitt-Schlereth/dp/0809272199
Produced and presented by Christopher D. Nolan, USCG cutterman (8 years) and US merchant mariner (500 ton Oceans). Currently on sabbatical aboard S/V Navigator.

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