Celestial Navigation Learning Resources

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Some great Youtube tutorials by Christopher D. Nolan, USCG cutterman (8 years) and US merchant mariner (500 ton Oceans)

• Getting Started in Celestial Navigation (The Marine Sextant)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrAkrgZRb9Y
• Getting Started in Celestial Navigation (The Noon Sight for Latitude)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWGOlpj4YwE
• Getting Started in Celestial Navigation (Precision)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWTN2LQ-TU

Reference Books

• Commonsense Celestial Navigation Paperback – July, 1979
• https://www.amazon.com/Commonsense-Celestial-Navigation-Hewitt-Schlereth/dp/0809272199
• 2018 Nautical Almanac
• https://www.amazon.com/2018-Nautical-Almanac-UK-Hydrographic/dp/1937196593/ 
• American Practical Navigator (aka Bowditch), volumes I and II
• https://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=msi_portal_page_62&pubCode=0002  

Sextants

• West Marine, Davis Instruments Mark III Sextant 
• https://www.google.com/shopping/product/15301038968540324177