PUB 229 Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation, Volume 3: Latitudes 30° – 45°, Inclusive
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
365 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1577851943
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Language: English
Publish: April 1, 1981
PUB 229 – Volume 3: Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation The Sight Reduction Tables for Marine Navigation (Pub 229) is published in six volumes, each of which contains two-eight degree zones of latitude with a one-degree overlap between volumes. They are designed to facilitate the practice of celestial navigation at sea. The tables are primarily used with the intercept method of sight reduction by entering arguments of latitude, declination, and local hour angle and obtaining tabulated altitudes and azimuth angles. The tables are prepared and published by NIMA on an as-needed basis.