Nautical Almanac for the Year 2007

Name: Nautical Almanac for the Year 2007
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ISBN: 9780160757167

ISBN-10: 0160757169

ISBN-13: 9780160757167

Edition: N/A

Authors: Nautical Almanac Office (U.S.)

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For over 150 years the United States Nautical Almanac Office has publishedThe Nautical Almanac, first as part of theAmerican Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, and then on its own, to provide the US Navy with a convenient form of the astronomical data used for celestial navigation. This book is still the standard resource for marine celestial navigation for the U.S. Navy. The book is produced in collaboration with Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office in the UK. That Office maintains the copyright on the material it produces. nbsp; The Nautical Almanaccontains the following data tabulated at hourly intervals to a precision of 0.1 arcminute: the Greenwich hour angle and declination of the…

Book details

List price: $3.50
Publisher: United States Government Printing Office
Publication date: 5/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 355
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Title page, preface, etc


Phases of the Moon Calendars Eclipses Planet notes and diagram Daily pages: Ephemerides of Sun, Moon, Aries and planets; sunrise, sunset, twilights, moonrise, moonset, etc


Explanation Standard times Star charts Stars: SHA and Dec of 173 stars, in order of SHA (accuracy 0.1) Polaris (Pole Star) tables


Sight reduction procedures; direct computation


Concise sight reduction tables


Form for use with concise sight reduction tables


Conversion of arc to time


Tables of increments and corrections for Sun, planets, Aries, Moon Tables for interpolating sunrise, sunset, twilights, moonrise, moonset, Moon’s meridian passage


Index to selected stars


Altitude correction tables for the Moon


Auxiliary pages, preceding


A2 - A3 Altitude correction tables for Sun, stars, planets A4 Additional refraction corrections for non-standard conditions Bookmark Same as pages A2 and xxxiii