ADVANCES IN CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

This paper describes the new day/night digital readout marine sextant, the concepts of the portable sextant- computer system, the development of the sight reduction computer program, and the remote-controlled low light level television camera-sextant system, which the navigator can operate within the ship to obtain celestial body sightings. /Author/

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  American Society of Naval Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Feldman, S
  • Seidelmann, P K
  • Barton, G G
• Publication Date: 1974-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 65-76
• Serial:
  • Naval Engineers Journal
  • Volume: 86
  • Issue Number: 4
  • ISSN: 0028-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Celestial navigation; Information processing; Navigation devices
• Old TRIS Terms: Navigation equipment; Sextants
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00084523
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Maritime Research Center, Kings Point
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 1 1975 12:00AM