How To Calculate Compass Error by Amplitude of the Sun
Friday, January 6th, 2017 at 23:08 | by Alistair BaillieHow To Calculate Compass Error by Amplitude of the Sun! A short video where I explain how to calculate a ships Gyro compass error from a bearing of the Sun using the amplitude method.
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Pro Forma: Amplitude Pro Forma
NOTE: This video makes use of selected pages from the British Admiralty Nautical Almanac (Admiralty Publication NP314). The example uses the 2016 version of the publication so if you’re doing the calculation for a different year the numbers won’t be the same.
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