Paul A. Titze - Master / Engineer / Maritime Trainer

MV Sydney Princess December 05

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Master Class 4, MED 2, Sydney Ports Local Knowledge BSc.(Physics), Cert. IV in Assessment and Workplace Training

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Office of Maritime Communications, all kinds of usefull info.
Questions for Exam Revision (OMC).
Coastal Radio Network Services (NSW Maritime), also has a coverage map of the marine bands for NSW.
Pietro Bossi's free VHF DSC radio simulator.
GMDSS Information (Densham&Assoc.), very informative site.

Australian Geomagnetic Reference Field Values (Geoscience Australia).
Geomagnetic Field FAQ (NGDC).
Magnetic Declination FAQ, note declination also means variation.
Celestial Navigation Data (US Naval Observatory).
Compass Adjuster Australia, has a FAQ on compass adjustment.
Island Compasses South, specialised tools and supplies for the compass adjuster.

Sky-map | JPL Solar System Simulator
CHView | Exosolar | Celestia

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe | SDSS

BPP

AIAA

Physorg

TWF

IoP

arXiv

IJTP

physics/0506173

Interstellar Navigation and position fixing methods: some notes [under construction]

Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri (arrow pointing to it) triple star system, is the closest known star to our Sun (Distance to Proxima Centauri = 4.22 ly = 21 556 927 570 000 nautical miles)

Interstellar dust clouds and reflection nebulae near Antares and Rho Ophiuchi (Distance to Antares = 600 ly = 3 064 966 006 000 000 nautical miles)

Our Milky Way Galaxy, looking towards the galactic centre thought to have a supermassive black hole (Current estimates put our Galaxy to have 400 billion stars, main disk diameter 100 000 ly)

The Andromeda Galaxy with its satellite dwarf galaxies, part of our Local Group of galaxies (Current estimates have it at 2.52 million ly away with 1 trillion stars, diameter 140 000 ly)

Hoag's Object, a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy (Current estimates have it at 600 million ly away in the Serpens constellation)

The deepest image of the Universe ever taken in visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope (These are some of the oldest galaxies ever seen existing when the Universe was only 800 million years old.
Current estimates on the age of our Universe based on the Big Bang model = 13.7 billion years � 200 million years)