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24. _______________________is a device designed to measure, with a great deal of precision, the angle between two
objects.
25. _________________from celestial observations can be compared with good positions obtained by electronics or piloting.
26. In marine sextant the _____________________is marked by the altitude graduation.
27. ______________ is the error due to the height of eye.
28. _________________________ occurs when the index arm does not pivot at the exact center of the arcs curvature.
29. __________________________ occurs when there is an improper cut or incorrect calibration in the arc, micrometer drum
and vernier of the sextant.
30. ___________________________ is an error of a marine sextant when the (Horizon) mirror and the (Index) glass are not
parallel to each other.
III. Enumeration:
1. What are the three vertices of a navigational triangle?
2. What are the three sides of a navigational triangle?
3. What are the two angles of our concerned in our navigational triangle?
4. What will be found given the latitude of two places on the earth and the difference of longitude between them?
IV. Essay:
1. Discussed briefly the procedures in finding the index error.
2. Discussed briefly the procedures in conducting a sun sights.
3. Discussed briefly the procedures in conducting the most common method (method #3) in star sights.
V. Problem Solving:
1. Given: Latitude 17o S, t 64o E, declination 28o S
Required: Altitude and true azimuth
2. On June 12, 2000, the sun is observed with a marine sextant having an Index error of 05.3 on the arc, from a height of eye
of 30 meters. The sextant altitude is 41o 34.8.
Required: Ho using Browns Nautical Almanac.
3. On June 30 the 1230 DR longitude of a ship is 51o 32.4 W. Ten hours later the DR long is 53o 07.2 W.
Required: ZT and date of arrival at the second longitude.
4. The navigator observes the sun on the meridian on June 11, 2000 bearing south. The corrected sextant altitude (Ho) is
55o00.
Required: a) Zone time (apparent sun) of the meridian passage at longitude 080oW.
b) Latitude (solve by meridian altitude projection).
5. On June 12, 2000 at ZT 05h 00m 00s in longitude 008o 52.2W, the true observed altitude of star Polaris, Ho 50o 30 was
observed. (Approximate latitude 50o).
Required: Latitude
6. Given:
Assumed Latitude = 30oN
LHA or t = 15oE
Declination
= 15o30 N
Required: a) Hc
b) Zn