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Autor/in | Van Allen, J. A. |
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Titel | Basic principles of celestial navigation. |
Quelle | In: American journal of physics, 72 (2004) 11, S. 1418-1424
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0002-9505; 1943-2909 |
DOI | 10.1119/1.1778391 |
Schlagwörter | Astronomie; Navigation; Physik; Sonne; Navigation; Astronomie; Mond; Physik; Sonne; Mond |
Abstract | Celestial navigation is a technique for determining one's geographic position by the observation of identified stars, identified planets, the Sun, and the Moon. This subject has a multitude of refinements which, although valuable to a professional navigator, tend to obscure the basic principles. I describe these principles, give an analytical solution of the classical two-star-sight problem without any dependence on prior knowledge of position, and include several examples. Some approximations and simplifications are made in the interest of clarity. © 2004 American Association of Physics Teachers. |
Erfasst von | Arbeitsgruppe Didaktik der Physik, Universität Osnabrück |
Update | 2005/2 |