Celestial Navigation - ASA 107
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    A self-study course in celestial navigation theory required to safely navigate a sailboat on an offshore.
    This course covers how to find position at sea from timed sextant sights of the sun, moon, stars, and planets plus other routine and special procedures of safe, efficient offshore navigation. No previous navigation experience is required - the only math involved is arithmetic (adding and subtracting angles and times).
    This is a practical, how-to-do-it course, which also includes clear explanations of how it works and how to do it well. Plus this course includes other crucial factors of ocean navigation besides just finding out where you are from the stars, such as logbook procedures, dead reckoning, error analysis, route planning, etc. At the end of this course, you will be ready for ocean navigation.
    Thousands of students have successfully learned celestial from these materials and gone on to cross oceans or circumnavigate the globe.
    The practical application is conducted in the Offshore Passagemaking Course.

    Prerequisite: None
    Cost: $200.00
    Passport Sailing Cub Members: $100.00

    Materials:
    All text materials are provided to complete the course. The only thing extra you might need are basic plotting tools (parallel rules, dividers and protractor). If you have no tools now, then our plotting tool kit will provide what you need... not just for the course, but for all of your future navigation underway as well.

    You do not need a sextant to work the course.
    Celestial Course Topics include:

  • Lat, Lon, and nautical miles
  • Principles of celestial navigation
  • Sextant usage and care
  • Noon sights for latitude
  • Running fixes from the sun
  • Ocean dead reckoning
  • Time keeping
  • Sextant sights and sight reduction of sun, moon, stars, and planets
  • Star ID and sight planning
  • Daily procedures and logbooks
  • Route planning
  • Compass checks at sea
  • High seas radio usage
  • Landfall procedures
  • Use of calculators
  • Use of NAO sight reduction tables
  • Plus emergency navigation techniques and notes on the latest developments in GPS
  • ASA Certification:
    ASA - Celestial Navigation Standard (107)
    Schedule/Dates: Any time
    22 Pelham Road, New Rochelle, NY 10801-5753 - Voice 914-235-6052 - E-mail sailing@nyss.com