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. Navigation Calculators

   Calculators for obtaining a position line from a sextant reading, plotting courses, calculating the intercept position etc. The calculators 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.