Celestial Navigation: Learn How to Master One of the Oldest Mariner's Arts

Concise, really really good illustrations. No wasted words Once you have this under your belt, go to Burch for a very detailed treatment, I did Google some terms where he wasn’t as detailed as I wanted, but you don’t need to do that to grasp the material. I’ve looked at older books by Kelch and Toghill but they lack the illustrations and detail. What I ended up doing was working from this book to Burch, back and forth. You certainly need Burch after this book, if you are going to take a test or actually navigated. Start here.

…..Celestial Navigation it’s old tradition in boating any vessel….and best basic tool to know how to handle as a back up in case of today GPS and other electronic equipment failures for some reason….. the author Mr. Tom Cunliffe it’s easy to fallow step by step clear and useful professional instructions in this valuable book : Celestial Navigation…..thank you so much..

Very clear and concise. The diagrams are excellent and make the math simple. The only complaint I have is with the type setting in the kindle edition. In many places what should be a ‘-‘ sign is replaced with a ‘?’ This was very confusing at first but wasn’t hard to deal with when I figured out what the issue was. The book also makes references to pages which doesn’t work well for kindles.

Well written and easy to understand.

I checked this book out from my library and liked it a lot. For me, cel nav isn't something I can read once and get it, so I bought this book. Same good material but the book size is smaller than my library edition and this made reading the tables very hard.

Need to read , make notes then get an engineer or Navigator to help you with rough edges, Helps to sale outside for readings. Wish there was a simulator tool for practice learning?

Excellent book! He gently walks you through celestial navigation until that magic “ahhh! That’s how they do that” moment. Unlike a textbook it was actually a pleasure to read.

I read that this was one of the best books on the subject. At the end of the day, I learned what I needed to. The examples were good. However I had to read some parts 3 times to understand them, and the subject of plotting your position was too brief. I finally figured it out. The author approaches the training as a "How To", without telling why. Maybe with my engineering background the style wasn't quite right for me. But I learned what I needed to and don't know of any better treatment of this complex subject matter.

Informative

This book can't be bad. It's perfect and good explanation is there

Le tems veux ça ....il faut pas être pressé pour les livres...petit opuscule en offset couleurs avec des schémas élémentaires ...simple pour un début .

Es muy intuitivo y da una buena pauta de trabajo para posicionar te de forma rápida con el sextante nautico

Background:I have the RYA Yachtmaster coastal/ offshore theory certificate and was looking to upgrade/learn celestial navigation without going into in-depth theory and calculations of astro navigation. The idea was to learn the practical aspects of it with the basic theoretical requirements.Positives:- concise and well written- nice summary and good resource to have on the boat if you need a refresher- it skips the theory part that is not essential to using celestial navigation- explains sextant maintenanceThings I missed:- the content is not quite detailed and structured enough to teach me use celestial navigation with confidence (e.g. tired on the rocking boat).- a few steps in the examples were left to the reader to figure out and I had to resort to online search (e.g. how to use a plotting sheet)- the work forms for sight reduction were “high level”, I would have preferred a more structured approach in order to be able to use the book as reference on passageConclusion:- I have read the book in detail and done all the examples myself. At times, it was a bit frustrating to figure out the missing steps, but overall doable. I will be happy to keep the book on the boat as a somewhat incomplete resource or how-to in case other navigation systems fail.- As I was going through the book and exercises, I found some online resources (see Regina sailing, RYA on YouTube) that were far superior in explaining the step by step procedures needed to take a sight and find your location from a moving boat, including work forms.In other words, I used the online tutorial to learn how to use celestial navigation and keep this book as a refresher/reminder in case of emergency