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Final Exam Celestial Navigation With Answer
Final Exam Celestial Navigation With Answer
Final Exam Celestial Navigation With Answer
30. Index Error - is when the (Horizon) mirror and the (Index) glass are not parallel to each other.
Multiple choices:
1. The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun becomes slightly more and then less oval every100,000 years.
a. Eccentricity
b.Precession:
c. Tilt
d. Ecliptic
2. The angle of the Earth's axis relative to the plane of its orbit changes about three degrees every 41,000 years.
a.Eccentricity
b.Precession:
c. Tilt
d. Ecliptic
3. Earth wobbles on it axis as it spins, completing a full wobble every 23,000 years.
a.Eccentricity
b.Precession:
c. Tilt
d. Ecliptic
4. The earth moves faster in space during the month of:
a. January
b. April
c. October
d. July
5. The point of the Ecliptic that are 90o distance from the Equinoxes:
a. Ecliptic
b. Solstitial colure
c. Equinoctial
d. Solstice
6. The point of ecliptic at which the sun reaches its farthest position north of the celestial equator is called:
a. Vernal equinox
c. Summer solstice
b. Autumnal equinox
d. Winter solstice
7. The motion of the earth about its axis causing the celestial bodies to appear to rise and set is called:
a. rotation
b. revolution
c. space motion
d. retrograde motion
8. The motion of the earth in its orbit that causes different celestial bodies to be visible during different months is called:
a. revolution
b. rotation
c. space motion
d. retrograde motion
9. The first point of Aries is the position occupied by the sun on the celestial sphere on or about:
a. June 21
b. September 21
c. December 21
d. March 21
10. When the sun is at aphelion, which of the following is correct regarding the suns declination?
a. the sun is near maximum declination north
b. the sun is near maximum declination south
c. the suns declination is 0 deg. going from north to south
d. the suns declination is 0 deg. going from south to north.
11. Earth's orbit defines a two-dimensional plane which we call the ecliptic. It takes roughly how many days for the Earth to
go around the Sun once.
a. 366
b. 365.12
c. 365.25
d. 366.25
12. The time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun one full time is what we call:
a. one complete revolution
c. one complete rotation
b. a year
d. a day
13. The Southern Hemisphere is having its winter, and the Northern Hemisphere its summer.
a. summer solstice
c. vernal equinox
b. autumnal equinox
d. winter solstice
14. The Southern Hemisphere is having its summer, and the Northern Hemisphere its winter.
a. summer solstice
c. vernal equinox
b. autumnal equinox
d. winter solstice
15. The point where the sun appears to cross the equinoctial when moving from north to south.
a. Autumnal equinox
c. Summer solstice
b. Vernal equinox
d. Winter solstice
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 (10 POINTS)
Answers: h 28o , Zn 115o
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. (5 POINTS)
Answer: 41o 34 39.8
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. (5 POINTS)
Solution:
ZT
=
1230 June 30
ZD
=
+3
GMT
=
1530 June 30
interval =
+10
GMT
=
0130 July 01
ZD
=
+4 (rev)
ZT
=
2130 June 30
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. (3 POINTS)
b) Latitude (solve by meridian altitude projection). (7 POINTS)
Answer: a) ZT = 12h 20m 19s
b) Latitude = 58o 08.2 N.
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 (5 POINTS)
Solution: June 12, 2000
ZT
=
05h 00m 00s
ZD
=
+ 1
GMT =
06h 00m 00s
GHA of Aries = 350o 52.2
Longitude
= 008o 52.2 (-)
LHA of Aries = 342o
Ho = 50o 30
Ao =
34.4
A1 =
0.6
A2 =
0.2
Sum = 51o 05.2 1o
Lat. = 50o 05.2
6. Given:
Assumed Latitude = 30oN
LHA or t = 15oE
Declination
= 15o30 N
Required: a) Hc = 70o (2 POINTS)
b) Zn = 133.2o (3 POINTS)