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    Product details:

    • Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland
    • Date of Publication 3 April 2025
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783031475443
    • Binding Paperback
    • See also 9783031475412
    • No. of pages337 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XXXII, 337 p. 182 illus., 51 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book focuses on Coastal and Ocean Navigation with an emphasis on celestial navigation techniques as a ‘back up’ in the event digital technologies fail.It deals with the main themes and principles of celestial navigation (including time). It covers the syllabus for deck officers working towards the Officer of the Watch (OOW) certificate of competence (COC) awarded by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), and for Royal Navy navigation officers working towards achieving the equivalent Navigational Watch Certificate (NWC). The NWC is equivalent to the certificate awarded by the MCA to OOWs in the Merchant Service under the international Standardisation of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) agreements. The detailed theory of celestial navigation is provided.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introducing the Celestial Sphere.- Time Systems.- Practical Sights: Planning, Taking, Reducing and Plotting.- Observing Celestial Sights using an Artificial Horizon.- Identification of Heavenly Bodies.- Meridian Passage and Polaris.- Rising and Setting of Heavenly Bodies.- Refraction, Dip and Mirage.- Errors in Celestial Position Lines.- Sky at Night.- Understanding Celestial Sphere Terminology.- Hour Angels.- Theory of Time.

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