Tutorials




	The tutorials are intended to compliment and expand on the AstroNav Manual. The Celestial Navigation tutorial covers the theory/ general aspects of celestial navigation. The AstroNav Quick Start guide is useful for examples; Celestial Navigation Using a Sextant Altitude The Concept Using a Sextant for Celestial Navigation Position Lines A Running Fix Notes on Running Fixes Before Calculators and GPS Sight Calculations and Obtaining a Position Steps to Resolving a Sight Correcting a Sextant Altitude Calculating the Bearing and Distance ABC and Sight Reduction Tables Deriving and Combining Position Lines Corrections to a Sextant Altitude Index Error Dip/ Height of Eye Refraction Temperature and Pressure Corrections to Refraction Semi-Diameter Augmentation Parallax Examples Nautical Almanac Information Greenwich Hour Angle (GHA) Local Hour Angle (LHA) Declination Simplifications of Nautical Almanac Data Examples Sailings (Plane/ Plain and Mercator Plane (or Plain Sailing) Mercator Sailing Spherical Trigonometry The PZX triangle as a spherical triangle Parts of the PZX Triangle Spherical Trigonometry Formula Napier’s Rules The complete Celestial Navigation tutorial in pdf format is available -> Here <- The AstroNav Quick Start guide fleshes out examples in the tutorial by adding context and examples -> Here <- The Celestial Navigation tutorial should be quickly browsed as a foundation for the AstroNav Quick Start.