Table of Contents

1. Celestial Navigation Theory

   Introduces Formulae for calculating distances between points on earth or on celestial sphere.

   
   
2. Sextant Errors and Corrections

   Describes the errors arising from the sextant, atmosphere, and celestial objects themselves.

   
   
3. Rhumb Lines Calculations

   Describes the notions of longitude, departure, and distance for rhumb line plotting.

   
   
4. Coastal Navigation and Conning

   Techniques of plotting a fix in coastal navigation.

   
   
5. Sight Reduction Calculator

   Calculator for obtaining the position line from a sextant reading. The page and the formulas are copyrighted under the GNU General Public License and you are welcome to copy the page for your own use and even to redistribute it as long as you abide by the conditions of the license.

   
   
6. Sun and Aries Almanach

   Calculator for obtaining the position of Aries and the Sun from year 1950 to year 2050. The program is coprighted under the GNU General Public License and you are welcome to copy the page for your own use and even to redistribute it as long as you abide by the conditions of the license.