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| Introduction | |
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| A Short History Astrolabe Latitude Hook | |
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| Quadrant Cross Staff Back Staff Sextant | |
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| Elements of the Sextant and Four Vital Adjustments | |
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| Perpendicularity Frame and Index Mirror Frame and Horizon Glass | |
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| Parallelism Index Mirror and Horizon Glass Telescope and Frame Adjustment Procedures | |
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| Attachments and Accessories Astigmatizers Double Star | |
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| Prism Wide View Horizon Glass Davis Prism Level Bubble Horizon | |
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| Attachment Neck Straps Visual Aids | |
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| Care, Maintenance, and Repair Oiling and Cleaning | |
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| Immersion Bath Procedures | |
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| How to Hold Where to Put Down Mounted Sextant Boxes Emergency | |
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| Silvering Techniques | |
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| Applying Paint Resilvering Horizon Glass | |
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| How to Buy a Sextant Where to Find | |
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| Them Prices Five Ground Rules to Avoid Problems Taking | |
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| Test Sights Interstellar | |
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| Test Table Discovering the Dropped Sextant | |
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| Reconditioning Costs | |
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| Sighting Techniques Inversion for Location Precalculating | |
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| Azimuths Rocking or Swinging an Arc Sun's | |
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| Upper Limb Shades for Sun, Moon, and Venus Correcting for False | |
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| Horizon Rough Weather Sighting Techniques Making a Monocle | |
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| Correcting the Sight | |
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| The Thirteen Errors Correcting for Moon, Venus, and Mars Correcting for Wave Height | |
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| Timing the Sight Accurately | |
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| The Hack Watch Using a Tape Recorder Counting Paces and Stopwatches | |
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| Attaching Stopwatch to Sextant | |
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| Searching for Stars | |
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| The Necessity for Preplanning Finding Sunrise | |
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| Using the Rude Star Finder Converting Local Time Using | |
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| H.O. Pub. No. 249 Making and Using a Wrist Board | |
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| Sextants of Tomorrow Is the Sextant Doomed? Coming Developments | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Sextant Check Procedures | |
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| Sextant Manufacturers | |
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| Distribution and Dealers | |
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| The Navigator's Basic Tool Kit | |
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| Making and Using an Artificial Horizon | |
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| Table of Interstellar Angles for Practice Sighting and Sextant Testing | |
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| Useful Addresses | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |