MT-OOW3000Y-L4.4

Time, the sextant and altitude corrections

MT-OOW3000Y-M4 · Passage Planning and Celestial Navigation · MT-OOW3000Y-M4-A Appraisal to execution, tides and streams, sailings and wheel-over, then the sextant, the almanac and the celestial fix.

Every celestial answer depends on **the right UTC and a correctly corrected altitude**. Most lost marks come from signs, not spherical trigonometry.

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