NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Jan 8, 22:19 -0800
Go back to the archive for December 2008 and look at the messages in the thread "Chichester's calculations" which illustrate the various methods of sight reduction.
Here is a link to get you started:
http://www.fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=106704&y=200812
Since you are just starting our you might like to try my version of the Bygrave slide rule, the files needed to make one for yourself are available here:
https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/other-flight-navigation-information/modern-bygrave-slide-rule
In addition you can download files that will allow you to do celestial through 2014 without an almanac here:
https://sites.google.com/site/fredienoonan/other-flight-navigation-information/self-contained-long-term-celestial-navigation-system
gl
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