Astronomical navigation

This page offers many astronomy documents, nautical ephemeris, which meet the regulations concerning the mandatory documents to have on board a boat.

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books

The Admiralty is a trade mark which depends on the UKHO (United Kingdom Hydrographic Office). This hydrographic service depends on the Royal Navy. It can be compared as the equivalent of our former French Ministry of the Navy or the equivalent missions are carried out by the SHOM (Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine).

Admiralty is the market leader, its portfolio of Maritime Data Solutions is present on more than 90% of ships worldwide and provides the widest official coverage of the busiest international sea routes and ports.

Dependent on sailors for over 200 years, the range includes over 15,750 Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs), 3,500 Standard Nautical Charts (SNCs) and over 200 print and digital publications.

The Admiralty's nautical charts and nautical works are suitable for navigation for yachtsmen and merchant marine professionals. With these documents, you will be able to navigate many miles with your pleasure boat, discover wonderful anchorages, go coastal or offshore sailing.

Some Admiralty digital documents can only be read with the reader of this hydrographic service. Here is the Installation and User Guide for this eReader.

All nautical charts, paper or digital, are edited to order and benefit from the latest updates. In accordance with the provisions of Article L221-28 of the Consumer Code, the right of withdrawal cannot be exercised for the supply of goods likely to be obsolete quickly. These charts are neither taken back nor exchanged. Consequently, these orders are concluded definitively as soon as the order is placed by the Customer according to the methods specified in these GCS.

The Nautic Way Maritime Bookstore offers an exceptional selection of sextants.

In addition, we offer many nautical documents, guides, ephemerides, almanacs, ... which meet the regulations concerning the mandatory documents to have on board a boat.

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books

Find our comparison of sextants

The Nautic Way Maritime Bookstore offers stopwatches, a complementary tool to the sextant for those who love astronomical navigation.

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books

The astronomical ruler will come in handy if you like celestial navigation with a sextant or just stargazing.

Star identifier astronomical ruler, and for sextant astronomical navigation purists the Rude pattern star finder from Weems & Plath.

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books

The Nautic Way Maritime Bookstore offers astronomical calculators which are complementary tools to sextants for those who like astronomical navigation. No more need for nautical ephemerides on board!

The calculator is programmed for celestial navigation calculations:

• Ephemerides of the sun and the vernal point
• Line of height of sun and stars
• Star identifier
• day bed
• Transport of height lines
• star seeker
• Tide calculator

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books

La Librairie Maritime Nautic Way is an approved Shom Agent, and offers the complete catalog of charts and works of the SHOM (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy).

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We offer many nautical documents, guides, ephemerides, almanacs, ... which meet the regulations concerning the mandatory documents to have on board a boat.

We offer a wide choice of nautical ephemerides, astronomy equipment: sextant, star identifier, artificial horizon, ... and astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant.

Are your Shom charts and guides up to date?

More and more Shom works only exist in digital version. What about during a check?

Article 240-2.04 General provisions on armament and safety equipment " - VII. "Nautical information and documents may be collected in one or more books or electronic media that can be consulted at any time.

2009 Shom article on nautical and computer cartography.

All nautical charts, paper or digital, are edited to order and benefit from the latest updates. In accordance with the provisions of Article L221-28 of the Consumer Code, the right of withdrawal cannot be exercised for the supply of goods likely to be obsolete quickly. These charts are neither taken back nor exchanged. Consequently, these orders are concluded definitively as soon as the order is placed by the Customer according to the methods specified in these GCS.

We offer many books on the use of the sextant, as well as astronomical navigation, guides, ephemerides, almanacs, navigation tables, ...

For celestial navigation, you may also need:

• nautical ephemerides including the Dieumegard and Bataille tables and the HO-249 tables or others...
• sextant, artificial horizon
• astronomical calculator
• marine chronometer
• astronomical ruler
• astronomy course books and manipulation of a sextant
• professional astronomy books