The Star Finder Book Book

Preface
List of Tables and Examples

Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE 2102-D STAR FINDER
2.1 British Star Finder, NP323

Chapter 3. BACKGROUND
3.1 Terminology and Celestial Motions
3.2 Brightness and Color of Stars and Planets
3.3 Tips on Planet Identification
3.4 Use of Moon and Planets
3.5 Time and Time Keeping in Navigation

Chapter 4. APPLICATION I: Star Identification after the Sight
4.1 Identifying Navigational Stars
4.2 Identifying Other Stars
4.3 Identifying Planets

Chapter 5. APPLICATION II: Predicting Heights and Bearings
5.1 Precomputing Stars for Routine Sights
5.2 Choosing Optimum Stars for Routine Sights
5.3 Precomputing Sun, Moon and Planets
5.4 Choosing Time Between Sunlines for a Running Fix
5.5 Picking Optimum Star-Planet Combinations

Chapter 6. APPLICATION III: Sun-Moon and Sun-Venus Sights
6.1 Figuring Optimum Sight Times
6.2 A Precaution Doing Daylight Sights
6.3 Star Finder versus Alternative Methods
6.4 Emergency Steering with the Star Finder

BIBLIOGRAPHY...
APPENDIX

LIST OF NUMERICAL EXAMPLES
Example 3-1 Figuring the Brightness of Stars and Planets
Example 3-2 Finding the GMT and WT of Twilight
Example 3-3 More on Finding GMT and WT
Example 4-1 Star ID: Navigational Stars
Example 4-2 Star ID: Non-navigational Stars
Example 4-3 Planet ID
Example 5-1 Precomputation for Star Sights
Example 5-2 Precomputing Sun,Moon and Planets
Example 5-3 Picking the Time between Sun Sights for a Running Fix
Example 5-4 Precomputing Star-Planet Combinations
Example 5-5 More on Star-Planet Combinations
Example 5-6 Precomputing Moon, Planet, Star Combinations
Example 6-1 Optimizing Sun-Moon and Sun-Venus Sights
Example 6-2 Picking the Time for Sun-Moon Sights

LIST OF TABLES
Table 2-1 Star Symbols on the White Disk
Table 3-1 Brightness versus Magnitude for Stars and Planets
Table 3-2 Navigational Stars that are Distinctly Reddish
Table 3-3 Guidelines for the Use of the Moon
Table 5-1 Comparison of Three Methods for Star Precomputation
Table 5-2 A "Worst Case" Comparison of Star Precomputation
Table 5-3 Precomputed Sun, Moon and Venus
Table 5-4 Sun's Height (Hc) and Bearing (Zn) on July 14th, 1982
Table 5-5 Precomputation of Stars and Planets
Table 5-6 More Precomputations of Stars and Planets
Table 6-1 Precomputed LOP Intersection Angles Throughout the Day
Table 6-2 Sun-Moon Fixes Predicted by the Star Finder