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This star, if observed on some unlikely occasion, say through a break in the overcast, could not be computed using the tables. Nevertheless this remains the most popular tabular system in use. Toggle navigation. Ken Gebhart, Jr.

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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Despite its symmetric name, Vol. Thus, in part because Vol. Pub has stayed in print beyond its expected lifetime aircraft cel nav has been rare now for many decades , because these books became popular with yachtsman. Use of Vol. Then we round our DR-Lat to nearest whole degree, and we have effectively established the sky that is overhead.

Knowing this, Vol. Stars in all caps are bright ones. It has precomputed these stars for us, which we would otherwise have to do with Pub or a calculator. Next we take sights to the three stars in the normal manner, noting Hs and WT for each sight as in standard practice.

Don't worry, you do not have to know these stars, nor how to identify them in the sky. Just go out at about the time you used, set the sextant to the Hc given, and point in the Zn given, and your star will be there.

A point of pure light in a pale blue sky, often not even visible to the naked eye without a telescope pointing in the right place. Bring it to the horizon and you are done. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to use Vol. After the sights you can reduce them however you like, but Vol. We illustrate the use of Vol.

The only better practice is to use our book Hawaii by Sextant! We start by choosing a DR and a date, then figure the twilight times from the almanac as shown below. So this is where we start, and from the almanac we learn sight time will be about UTC on July 5. Note this is , and today is mid December, , which reminds us we can do this for any time.

As we shall see shortly, before an ocean voyage, you can know ahead of time which stars will be best on any night. This can change with cloud cover, but intentions can all be planned. Now we turn to Vol. So the LHA Aries column is essentially a time scale, at 4 minute intervals, with We are looking here at the best choices and heights of the stars over roughly an hour 15 x 4 min. But we also notice that the best 3 stars do not change. The ones with the diamonds, of which Antares and Regulus are magnitude 1 or brighter stars.

So we will chose those three stars to "take sights of" for this practice with Vol 1. At this point we could do the same thing using Pub or the NAO tables. It takes a couple minutes per sight, and we would typically take them in sequence and then repeat the sequence 3 or 4 times, or as long as we can see the horizon in the evening, or until the stars disappear in the morning. I chose this order at random for this exercise, but in practice there can be a preferred order.