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Bibliography

  1. Manual de Navegación. Martinez Jimenez, Enrique, 1978. ISBN: 84-400-5327-4
  2. Navigation and Piloting. Dutton. 14th ed. ISBN: 0-87021-157-9
  3. The American Practical Navigator. BOWDITCH, Nathaniel. 1995. Pub. Nº9, DMA.
  4. Navegación Costera. Pablo Bernardos de la Cruz, Francisco Jóse Correa Ruiz. Paraninfo, 1990. ISBN: 84-283-1759-3
  5. Astronomical Algorithms. by Jean Meeus, 2 Ed edition (December 1998). ISBN: 0943396638
  6. Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. USNO.
  7. A short guide to Celestial navigation Henning Umland. http://www.celnav.de/
  8. La navigation astronomique. Foundements, applications, perspectives. Philippe Bourbon, 2000. ISBN: 2-903581-24-X
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  10. Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 2, BR 45 (2), Astro Navigation. 2004, TSO London. ISBN: 1-870077-65-2

 

Papers - Celestial Navigation Algorithms

  1. Optimal Estimation of a Multi-Star Fix, C. De Wit. NAVIGATION, Vol.21 , No. 4, Winter 1974-75, pp 320-325.
  2. Low-Precision Formulae for Planetary Positions, Van Flandern T. C., Pulkkinen, K. F. (1979) , 1979, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 41, pp. 391-411.
  3. Compact Data for Navigation and Astronomy for the Years 1991-1995, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-38731-0. Yallop B. D. and Hohenkerk C. Y. (1991).
  4. Compact Data for Navigation and Astronomy for 1996 to 2000. ISBN 0-11-772467-X. Yallop B. D. and Hohenkerk C. Y. (1995), The Stationery Office.
  5. NavPac and Compact Data 2001-2005. ISBN 011 887311 3. C. Y. Hohenkerk and B. D. Yallop , Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office. The Stationery Office
  6. Metcalf and Metcalf. On the Overdetermined Celestial Fix, NAVIGATION, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp 79-89.
  7. Metcalf, T. R. Advancing Celestial Circles of Position, NAVIGATION, Vol. 38, No. 3, Fall 1991, pp 285-288.
  8. Metcalf, T. R. An Extension to the Overdetermined Celestial Fix, NAVIGATION, Vol. 39, No. 4, Winter 1992-93, pp. 477-480.
  9. Metcalf T.R. and Metcalf F.T. Piloting with Celestial Algorithms, NAVIGATION, Vol. 41, No. 2, Summer 1994, pp 207-214.
  10. Kaplan, G. H. (1995). Practical Sailing Formulas for Rhumb-Line Tracks on an Oblate Earth, Navigation, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 313-326.
  11. Kaplan, G. H. (1995). Determining the Position and Motion of a Vessel from Celestial Observations, Navigation, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 631-648.
  12. Kaplan, G. H. (1996). The Motion of the Observer in Celestial Navigation, Navigator's Newsletter, Issue 51 (Spring 1996), pp. 10-14.
  13. Kaplan, G. H. (1996). A Navigation Solution Involving Changes to Course and Speed, Navigation, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 469-482.
  14. Kaplan, G. H. (1999). New Technology for Celestial Navigation, to be published in the Proceedings of the Nautical Almanac Office Sesquicentennial Symposium.
  15. Watkins. R. and Janiczek. P. M., Sight Reduction with Matrices, NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 1978-79, pp. 447-48
  16. James A Van Allen. An analytical solution of the two star sight problem of celestial navigation. NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 1981, pp. 40-43
  17. Robert W. Severance. OVERDETERMINED CELESTIAL FIX BY ITERATION. IoN Vol. 36, No. 4, 1989
  18. COMPUTER SIGHT REDUCTION BASED ON INTERSECTION OF EQUAL ALTITUDE CIRCLES. R. W. Flynn. IoN Vol. 19, No. 1, 1972

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