The Sextant Handbook
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- ISBN
- 9780070052192
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN-10
0070052190
ISBN-13
9780070052192
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27051
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Sextant Handbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Boating, Navigation
Publication Year
1995
Features
Revised
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
92-002545
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
522/.4
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1 A Short History Astrolabe Latitude Hook Quadrant Cross Staff Back Staff Sextant Chapter 2 Elements of the Sextant and Four Vital Adjustments Perpendicularity Frame and Index Mirror Frame and Horizon Glass Parallelism Index Mirror and Horizon Glass Telescope and Frame Adjustment Procedures Chapter 3 Attachments and Accessories Astigmatizers Double Star Prism Wide View Horizon Glass Davis Prism Level Bubble Horizon Attachment Neck Straps Visual Aids Chapter 4 Care, Maintenance, and Repair Oiling and Cleaning Immersion Bath Procedures How to Hold Where to Put Down Mounted Sextant Boxes Emergency Silvering Techniques Applying Paint Resilvering Horizon Glass Chapter 5 How to Buy a Sextant Where to Find Them Prices Five Ground Rules to Avoid Problems Taking Test Sights Interstellar Test Table Discovering the Dropped Sextant Reconditioning Costs Chapter 6 Sighting Techniques Inversion for Location Precalculating Azimuths Rocking or Swinging an Arc Sun's Upper Limb Shades for Sun, Moon, and Venus Correcting for False Horizon Rough Weather Sighting Techniques Making a Monocle Chapter 7 Correcting the Sight The Thirteen Errors Correcting for Moon, Venus, and Mars Correcting for Wave Height Chapter 8 Timing the Sight Accurately The Hack Watch Using a Tape Recorder Counting Paces and Stopwatches Attaching Stopwatch to Sextant Chapter 9 Searching for Stars The Necessity for Preplanning Finding Sunrise Using the Rude Star Finder Converting Local Time Using H.O. Pub. No. 249 Making and Using a Wrist Board Chapter 10 Sextants of Tomorrow Is the Sextant Doomed? Coming Developments Appendixes A--Sextant Check Procedures B--Sextant Manufacturers C--Distribution and Dealers D--The Navigator's Basic Tool Kit E--Making and Using an Artificial Horizon F--Table of Interstellar Angles for Practice Sighting and Sextant Testing G--Useful Addresses Bibliography Index
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Loran and GPS notwithstanding, there will always be a place for the sextant aboard any blue-water boat, if for no other reason than the thrill and mystery of finding one's position on earth by gazing at the heavens. Here is the indispensable reference that should accompany the instrument aboard. Cmdr. Bruce Bauer, a professional navigator and master mariner with the U.S. Merchant Marine, has distilled years of hands-on experience into an eminently readable guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants. The Sextant Handbook is dedicated to the premise that electronic navigation devices, while too convenient to disregard, are too vulnerable to rely on exclusively. The book is designed to make beginner and expert alike conversant with this most beautiful and functional of the navigator's tools. Topics include: Assembly and Disassembly Vital Adjustments Avoiding Problems Rough Weather Sightings Oiling and Cleaning Immersion Baths Emergency Silvering Finding and Buying Used Sextants And Much More You'll also find a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of future trends, and numerous helpful hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a Rude starfinder. All in a thoroughly revised edition of a book acclaimed by navigation professionals.
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