Reply To: Practice sights for a beginner.

[Philippe]

Hello,
To create exercises for celestial navigation, I use Stellarium, a wonderful freeware you can get freely here: Stellarium
With this program, you can choose the place you are on the earth, the date and time of your sight, and the celestial body you wish to use.. The software tell you the altitude of this body and the azimuth you would get at the end of your computations.
And more : this software give you a realistic image of the sky, and will help you to understand the movement of all the bodies.