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Re: Please recommend a good book or on-line course
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 May 29, 14:09 -0400
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2019 May 29, 14:09 -0400
The very first book I learned from was Dutton's Navigation and Piloting. Get one from the late 60's, early 70's. Used to train US Navy Midshipmen at the Academy.
Its a textbook. Every aspect and detail (less lunars, get that here) is covered. Complete and thorough. Not going to be everyone's cup of tea but it is a power house.
B
On Wed, May 29, 2019, 2:00 PM Joe Suligoy <NoReply_Suligoy@fer3.com> wrote:
I'm working through teaching myself celestial as well... fascinating stuff. "Celestial Navigation in a Teacup" is good and free, and I bought "Celestial Navigation for the Clueless" which is a high-level overview with some silly humor thrown in; good for a first primer .
For an online course, I just found this and have not started going through it yet, but it's free and looks very well organized:
https://my.vanderbilt.edu/astronav/
Good luck!
