A new format Nautical Almanac for the 21st Century.
Using the popular wire bound concept with larger clearer font, cream pages for increments & corrections, all help to make Witherbys Almanac a user-friendly style of Nautical Almanac for today’s navigator.
Altitude correction tables for Sun, stars, planets
Additional refraction corrections for non-standard conditions
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.
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
Country Information
Celestial Navigation Explained
Use of Concise Sight Reduction Tables of The Nautical Almanac
Bridge Notes / Nav Formulae
Conversion Factors
Bridge Equipment (AIS, ARPA, BNWAS, ECDIS, GALILEO, VDR, S-Mode, GMDSS)
The use and care of a sextant
The use and care of an azimuth mirror
Magnetic Compass
Worked Examples
i Conversion of arc to time
ii – xxxi Tables of increments and corrections for Sun, planets, Aries, Moon
xxxii Tables for interpolating sunrise, sunset, twilights, moonrise, moonset, Moon’s meridian passage
xxxiii Index to selected stars
xxxiv – xxxv Altitude correction tables for the Moon
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