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Information about how to use the nautical almanac to do a sight reduction is limited or obfuscated. The nautical almanac and astronomical ephemeris for the. The accuracy has been checked as good as possible but can not be guaranteed. A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea. Pdf and excel spreadsheet printable like a pdf nautical almanac. Your ultimate resource for nautical charts, electronic navigation charts, maritime books, nautical instruments, flags, and more. It is also at the core of celestial navigation training courses worldwide. The almanac is arranged in parts that are numbered for ready reference from i to vii as follows.
The nautical almanac office of the united states naval observatory computes and prepares the critical american navigational publications, the air almanac and the nautical almanac in addition, they carry on the essential research work of deriving improved values of the fundamental astronomical elements and embodying them in new tables of the celestial motions, publishing the annual. Use a nautical almanac for the date to find the lmt local mean time of sunrise. As a supplier of worldwide charts corrected uptodate and publications of the u. Nautical almanac publications, including sight reduction tables. The astronomical almanac 20152019 is now available as a free download from, for a limited time. Also available as an enautical publication in addition to paper format, the admiralty nautical almanac is available as an admiralty enautical publication aenp. New for the 2016 edition of the nautical almanac onwards is a sixpage supplement of polar astronomical phenomena including semidurations of sunlight, civil twilight and moonlight. It covers the period 1 july to 30 june and provides official information to aid safe navigation in new zealand waters. Admiralty nautical publications are internationally recognised for their accuracy and excellence by mariners around the globe. Approved for use by the flag states of over 80% of ships trading internationally. British admiralty nautical publications are published by the united kingdom hydrographic office ukho and are used for safe navigation and avoidance of navigational hazards by vessels transiting. Table 4 gha and declination of the sun for the years 2001 to 2036. Includes parallax corrections for the planets which are not normally available. The results are the pdf files that can be downloaded here.
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