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Celestial Navigation
VE3WIO
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Learning Objective
• Thoroughly confuse people about Celestial Navigation
• Convince people that they should never leave land
• Unless they want a life changing experence
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Agenda
• Lighthouse • GP • Almanac • Sextant • Azimuth & Elevation
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Lighthouse Circles of position
Altitude
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Altitude
One has to see the HORIZON
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Celestial COP
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GP
• Geographic Position – Location on the surface of the earth of a line
between the centre of the earth and the centre of the body
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Almanac • Geographical Position, hourly (GP)
– Greenwich Hour Angle, (GHA) – Declination, (Dec) – Universal Coordinated Time, (UT)
• UT Hourly (GP) of the Sun, Moon, Major Planets, Major Stars
• Size of Sun and Moon, upper and lower limb (UL & LL) • Brightness of stars and planets, (Mag) • Translation of height of eye to angle below horizon, (DIP) • Daily nautical and civil twilights • Sun and moon rise and set
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From the Almanac Where is the Sun
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Sextant
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Taking a Sight
• Telescope aimed at the horizon • Index arm adjusted to the appropriate angle • Sun and Moon decide on top (upper limb) or bottom
(lower limb)
Split Field
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Time
• Accurate time is needed to look up celestial body’s GP in the Nautical Almanac
• Error of 1 second in time leads to an error of up to 0.25 nm in LOP
• Celestial bodies - tabulated in the Almanac according to UT
• Reference CHU, WWV • Video “Longitude”, John Harrison, a self-educated
English clockmaker, invented the marine chronometer, • 1 minute of Latitude = 1nm
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Other things to consider
• Where do you think you are • Height of eye above water correction “DIP” • Watch error • Time zone • Parallax / Refraction • Sextant error “Index Error”
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Collecting Data
Time and Date
Body and estimated location
Sextant
Almanac
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RESULTS
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Need to do another sight 0834 hrs and 1346 hrs local (UT-5)