How To Use the Admiralty Star Finder

Monday, February 6th, 2017 at 10:00 | by Alistair Baillie

How To Use the British Admiralty Star Finder (NP 323) to work out what stars are visible in the sky and their approximate positions.

Ask any questions in the comments – I’ll do my best to answer them.

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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