Product Details

• Format: Color, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
• Studio: Magic Lamp Productions
• VHS Release Date: June 1, 1993
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 1882629337
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #681,677 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

This program contains official USN training footage previously available only by expensive rental of 16mm film from the U.S. Government. This information provides instruction on how to use the Air Almanac/Sight Reduction Tables for Celestial Navigation with the Moon, Stars and Planets.

Part 1: THEORY – Basic concepts: refresher on Latitude, Longitude, GHA, LHA, SHA, Geographical Position, Zenith Distance

Part 2: THE HORIZON SYSTEM – Using a Sextant to measure the altitude of a celestial body. Includes discussion of how the Air Almanac (H.O. 249) can be used to find the relative position of celestial bodies with respect to your own position. Introduction to the Celestial Line of Position

Part 3: THE INTERCEPT METHOD – Easy-to-understand demonstration of what the Celestial Triangle is, plus necessary information to solve it by using the Air Almanac

Part 4: SOLUTION & PRACTICAL APPLICATION – Using concepts from the first 3 parts, and a complete example of solving the celestial triangle, + filling in the HO 249 worksheet through the three stages of Observation, Computation and Plotting.

Extra: "Pathfinders from the Stars," feature film from the Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey Division that depicts the history of navigation.

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2.0 out of 5 stars not worth the money - borrow it from the library, May 30, 2010

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John M. Beasley (Titusville, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Basic Celestial Navigation with Navy Almanac [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have this and am trying to learn celestial nav. If you borrow it from the library, it is worth watching, but for 39.95, save your money and look somewhere else. What you get here are old US Navy training films that are directed toward idiots - and there is not enough detail to actually learn celestial nav from this DVD.

But if you can get it free, what it.