Celestial Navigation Quick & Easy. In your head calculations of latitude and longitude.
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"...The handiest analemma I've seen...produced by Dropzone Press...Almost an entire Nautical Almanac. Every celestial navigator should have one." -- Tim E. Queeny, marine navigation reporter, Ocean Navigator.
"...because of your contact with Bernie Oliver about the incorrect orientation of the analemma on globes...I have spoken with Bernie and he will give you proper credit." -- Dennis di Cicco, associate editor, Sky & Telescope, Took the world's first photo of the analemma.
"...delighted...extremely impressed with your ability to take very complicated subjects...navigation and astronomy...and simplify so that school children, scholars,and acamadecians...can have a tool to better understand our solar system...love the presentation...right on the mark." -- Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Command Module pilot on Apollo 12, the second landing mission to the moon.
"...shows the analemmas that the Sun would trace if observed from other planets..." -- Astronomy magazine, Waukesha, WI
"I like your analemma navigation. I have used hand measurements to calculate sunset." -- Tom Blackaller, captain of America's Cup challenger. St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco
"...because of your contact with Bernie Oliver about the incorrect orientation of the analemma on globes...I have spoken with Bernie and he will give you proper credit." -- Dennis di Cicco, associate editor, Sky & Telescope, Took the world's first photo of the analemma.
"...delighted...extremely impressed with your ability to take very complicated subjects...navigation and astronomy...and simplify so that school children, scholars,and acamadecians...can have a tool to better understand our solar system...love the presentation...right on the mark." -- Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Command Module pilot on Apollo 12, the second landing mission to the moon.
"...shows the analemmas that the Sun would trace if observed from other planets..." -- Astronomy magazine, Waukesha, WI
"I like your analemma navigation. I have used hand measurements to calculate sunset." -- Tom Blackaller, captain of America's Cup challenger. St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco
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This is the first time, to our knowledge,that the analemma system of navigation has been fully explained. There are over 200 illustration to make a difficult subject simple.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worse; then, useless,
By A Customer
This review is from: Celestial navigation quick & easy (Mass Market Paperback)
This may be the worst-written and most poorly edited book I've ever seen. Full of maybe-even-interesting but absolutely useless, (not to mention repetitive) facts, factoids, and opinions having next to nothing to do with actually learning something about celestial navigation (example: "Dick Gordon, astronaut, has pointed out, that most photos of the moon are placed upside down".) Rife with typos, spelling errors, and punctuation errors that a second-grader wouldn't make, this "book" shouldn't even be in print, much less for sale. Nonetheless, if there were one thing I would suggest to make the book at least marginally worthwhile, it would be for the author to ask himself, "So what?" about every fact/factoid/opinion he chooses to include. 99% of this book left me wondering, "So what?"
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Indeed mostly useless,
By Guenter Eichinger (Amberg Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Celestial navigation quick & easy (Mass Market Paperback)
Alas a have to join the last reviewer in most of his remarks. Though I liked the Analemma part which was quite interesting and somewhat useful, there is nothing in it which would help you in navigating with a sextant. The rest is indeed a collection of noncoherent sentences and topics. Might be interesting for a child but my advice for everyone else interested in celestial navigation is buy a better book
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Celestial Navigation Quick & Easy,
By Ron Penzel (Sausalito, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Celestial navigation quick & easy (Mass Market Paperback)
A totally unique way of explaining celestial navigation. It is clear and simple, with over 200 illustrations. You can understand a very complex subject.
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