NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Latitude and Longitude by "Noon Sun"
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2005 Jun 5, 15:44 -0400
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2005 Jun 5, 15:44 -0400
You seem to have it right. Regardless of the precision spoken of so of ten on this List, an intended landfall, based on celestial navigation alone, within the masthead visibility distance is a successful landfall. Henry On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 14:13:42 -0400 Charles Seitzwrites: > Instructions for my plastic sextant use a 'noon sight' > example for obtaining a fix. Obtaining both longitude > and latitude by one simple process is alluring to me. > > There are purists who scoff at imperfection and those, like > myself, who are not into nuance but are just trying to comprehend > basics. When I navigate accurately enough to sight a landmark > for my final approach, it's a success. > > May I suggest a noon sight fix might suffice for verification > of the dead reckoning position required for a direction/intercept > fix? Might that fix actually be superior to a DR position that > hasn't been updated during a period of prolonged cloud cover? > > --- CHAS >