Sky and Sextant: Practical Celestial Navigation by John P. Budlong (HQ274)

Published 1978: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket in removable protective wraps. 223 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age. (HQ274)

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How to use the moon, planets and stars to find position; how to make plotting sheets, check the compass, and set up an artificial horizon - plus, for the first time in a book on celestial navigation, methods for applying hand-held calculators to mathematical computations.

Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2012
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
The book is an excellent update of the original text. The discussion is crisp and congenial and, along with the exercises at the end of chapters, one is led the the topic in a most interesting way

Reviewed in the United States on 19 June 2016
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchase
Out of print, but Budlong takes an art and makes it relatively simple.

This is an excellent guide to the arcane though still valuable and practical art of celestial navigation. Together with an inexpensive sextant, it was all I needed to learn how to take celestial sights, starting first with the easy ones like the Sun & Moon and brighter planets, then the first and second-order magnitude stars.

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