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What's on your bookshelf?
From: Dave Walden
Date: 2006 Sep 8, 21:13 -0500
I've been curious what references others on the list have on their
shelves at home and why. It seemed only fair to give a shot at it
myself first. I had started to do Astronomy books as well, but things
were getting out of hand.
Anyone else?
INTERESTS
Tabular methods
Almanac data from JPL ephemeris data
NAVIGATION BOOKS
A complete set of nautical tables
1900, norie
ebay from Portugal
Publications of the USNO, 2nd series, vol IV-App II
1904,
referenced as info on Venus phase correction
American Practical Navigator
1918, bowditch
older tables
HO 203 --The Sumner Line of Position
1923,
sight reduction table using RA
Elements of navigation
1929, henderson
small officers guide
Martelli's improved method of finding apparent time at ship
1929,
found browsing at a used bookshop
Cugel's Practical Navigation
1936, cugel
many methods with worked ex, little theory
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
1939, dutton
use of old tables
HO 211 -Dead Reckoning Altitude and Azimuth Table
1940, ageton
original source
Primer of Navigation
1940, mixter
practical explanations
HO 216 --Air Navigation Manual
1941,
bubble sextant use
HO 208 -Navigation Tables for mariners and aviators
1942, dreisonstok
original source
Hughes Tables
1943, comrie
sight reduction tables
Star finder and Identifier
1958, No 2102-D
star finder and identifier
Explanatory Supplement to the Ephemeris
1961, USNO
details of coord transformations and origins
American Practical Navigator
1962, bowditch
good discussion of history of tabular methods
Noon position
1963, piver
self published, found browsing
History of Nautical Astronomy
1968, cotter
history of methods
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
1969, dutton
practical explanations
Piloting/Navigation with the pocket calculator
1976, Buchanch&Bergin
Self-Contained Celestial Navigation with HO208
1977, letcher
with real world examples
Naut Alm
1982,
1984,1999,2005,2006
Navigator's pocket calculator handbook
1983, noer
Problems and answers in navigation and piloting
1985, Mcloney
One day celestial navigation
1988, brown
Celestial navigation with the S table
1992, pepperday
pamphlet
Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac
1992,
updated transformations and origins
Longitude
1996, sobel
popular account
Astronomical Algorithms
1998, meeus
nice algorithm source
Fundamental Ephemeris Computations
1999, heafner
includes FORTRAN
Line of position navigation
2003, vanvaerenbergh&ifland
extracts from original sources
The complete on-board celestial navigator
2003, bennett
I like it, generates much discussion
Astro Alm
2004,
2006,
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications
2004, vallado
FORTRAN source available
Fundamentals of Astrometry
2004, kovalevsky&seidelmann
coord systems
INSTRUMENTS
A-10 bubble sextant
from eBay
AN 5851 bubble sextant
from Celestaire
Meade ETX-70 telescope
new from Meade
Davis Mk III
new
SOFTWARE
NOVAS
2006, kaplan
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/novas/novas_info.html"
SOFA
2005, IAU
"http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/"
JPL Data & FORTRAN
2006, JPL
"http://iau-comm4.jpl.nasa.gov/access2ephs.html"
pocket stars
2006, Nomad
"http://www.nomadelectronics.com/"
I use it on my PocketPC
Ephemerides Nautiques
2005, Jacques Tiphine
"http://www.stw.fr/download/Ephemerides_Nautiques4.02.Zip"
generates data and solution examples
ICE-official info
2006, USNO
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/docs/ice.html"
ICE-program
2006, USNO
"http://www.celnav.de/page3.htm"
aa-56
2005, Steve Moshier
"http://www.moshier.net/index.html#Astronomy"
LINKS
USNO-Nav Data
2006, USNO
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.html"
IMCCE
2006, French Govt
"http://www.imcce.fr/"
JPL Horizons
2006, JPL
"http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons"
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From: Dave Walden
Date: 2006 Sep 8, 21:13 -0500
I've been curious what references others on the list have on their
shelves at home and why. It seemed only fair to give a shot at it
myself first. I had started to do Astronomy books as well, but things
were getting out of hand.
Anyone else?
INTERESTS
Tabular methods
Almanac data from JPL ephemeris data
NAVIGATION BOOKS
A complete set of nautical tables
1900, norie
ebay from Portugal
Publications of the USNO, 2nd series, vol IV-App II
1904,
referenced as info on Venus phase correction
American Practical Navigator
1918, bowditch
older tables
HO 203 --The Sumner Line of Position
1923,
sight reduction table using RA
Elements of navigation
1929, henderson
small officers guide
Martelli's improved method of finding apparent time at ship
1929,
found browsing at a used bookshop
Cugel's Practical Navigation
1936, cugel
many methods with worked ex, little theory
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
1939, dutton
use of old tables
HO 211 -Dead Reckoning Altitude and Azimuth Table
1940, ageton
original source
Primer of Navigation
1940, mixter
practical explanations
HO 216 --Air Navigation Manual
1941,
bubble sextant use
HO 208 -Navigation Tables for mariners and aviators
1942, dreisonstok
original source
Hughes Tables
1943, comrie
sight reduction tables
Star finder and Identifier
1958, No 2102-D
star finder and identifier
Explanatory Supplement to the Ephemeris
1961, USNO
details of coord transformations and origins
American Practical Navigator
1962, bowditch
good discussion of history of tabular methods
Noon position
1963, piver
self published, found browsing
History of Nautical Astronomy
1968, cotter
history of methods
Navigation and Nautical Astronomy
1969, dutton
practical explanations
Piloting/Navigation with the pocket calculator
1976, Buchanch&Bergin
Self-Contained Celestial Navigation with HO208
1977, letcher
with real world examples
Naut Alm
1982,
1984,1999,2005,2006
Navigator's pocket calculator handbook
1983, noer
Problems and answers in navigation and piloting
1985, Mcloney
One day celestial navigation
1988, brown
Celestial navigation with the S table
1992, pepperday
pamphlet
Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac
1992,
updated transformations and origins
Longitude
1996, sobel
popular account
Astronomical Algorithms
1998, meeus
nice algorithm source
Fundamental Ephemeris Computations
1999, heafner
includes FORTRAN
Line of position navigation
2003, vanvaerenbergh&ifland
extracts from original sources
The complete on-board celestial navigator
2003, bennett
I like it, generates much discussion
Astro Alm
2004,
2006,
Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications
2004, vallado
FORTRAN source available
Fundamentals of Astrometry
2004, kovalevsky&seidelmann
coord systems
INSTRUMENTS
A-10 bubble sextant
from eBay
AN 5851 bubble sextant
from Celestaire
Meade ETX-70 telescope
new from Meade
Davis Mk III
new
SOFTWARE
NOVAS
2006, kaplan
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/novas/novas_info.html"
SOFA
2005, IAU
"http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/"
JPL Data & FORTRAN
2006, JPL
"http://iau-comm4.jpl.nasa.gov/access2ephs.html"
pocket stars
2006, Nomad
"http://www.nomadelectronics.com/"
I use it on my PocketPC
Ephemerides Nautiques
2005, Jacques Tiphine
"http://www.stw.fr/download/Ephemerides_Nautiques4.02.Zip"
generates data and solution examples
ICE-official info
2006, USNO
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/docs/ice.html"
ICE-program
2006, USNO
"http://www.celnav.de/page3.htm"
aa-56
2005, Steve Moshier
"http://www.moshier.net/index.html#Astronomy"
LINKS
USNO-Nav Data
2006, USNO
"http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/celnavtable.html"
IMCCE
2006, French Govt
"http://www.imcce.fr/"
JPL Horizons
2006, JPL
"http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons"
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