Navigation and Nautical AstronomyD. Van Nostrand Company, 1898 - 221 pages |
Other editions - View all
NAVIGATION & NAUTICAL ASTRONOM Charles 1846 Belknap,J. H. C. (John Huntington Crane) Coffin No preview available - 2016 |
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy John Huntington Crane Coffin,Charles Belknap No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
A₁ American Ephemeris angle apparent noon astronomical azimuth BowD celestial centre chart Chro chronom chronometer correction circle computed corresponding cosec course and distance d₁ declination Diff difference of latitude difference of longitude earth east Ephemeris equal altitudes equator error formula given Greenwich mean heavenly body horizon horizontal parallax hour-angle interpolation L₁ limb line of position Long loxodromic curve lunar distances mean noon mean sun merid meridian altitude meridian passage method minutes moon moon's Nautical nearest nearly O's dec observed altitude parallax parallel of latitude Plane Sailing pole prime vertical PROB PROBLEM quantities radius reduce refraction rhumb-line right ascension right triangle semidiameter Sept sextant sidereal day sin² Solution star subtract sun's Table transit TRIG true altitude true sun tude vernal equinox zenith distance Δι
Popular passages
Page 98 - A cos 6 = cos a cos c + sin a sin c cos B cos c = cos a cos 6 + sin a sin 6 cos C Law of Cosines for Angles cos A = — cos B...
Page 50 - ... mean sun" which moves in a uniform rate along the equator. This is called mean solar time. The difference between mean and apparent time is called the equation of time. To convert apparent time into mean time, take from the Nautical Almanac the equation of time and add it or subtract it according to the direction given at the column.
Page 72 - Almanac the two distances between which the true distance falls; take out the nearer of these, the hours of Greenwich time over it, and the PL of Diff. between them. Find the difference between the true distance and the distance taken Jrom the Almanac; and from the proportional logarithm of this difference, as found in the Navigator, subtract the PL of Diff.
Page 100 - ... or if the bearing at this time is interpolated for from previous and subsequent bearings per compass, the error of the compass can be found. It has already been shown that compass error is the difference between the true and compass bearings of a heavenly body at the same instant, and is marked E. when the true bearing is to the right of the compass bearing, W. when the true bearing is to the left of the compass bearing.
Page 50 - ... uniform, and this for two reasons: 1st. The sun does not move in the equator, but in the ecliptic, so that, even were the sun's motion in the ecliptic uniform, its equal changes of longitude would not produce equal changes of right ascension; 2d. The sun's motion in the ecliptic is not uniform. To obtain a uniform measure of time depending on the sun's motion, the following method is adopted. A fictitious sun, which we shall call the...