For decades celestial navigation was seen as an increasingly archaic skill, but there is now a resurgence of interest...
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A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space...
UPDATED January 11, 2021 Ocean Navigator has produced an excellent celestial navigation series over the years. The latest series...
Plotting an Emergency Fix from the Sun
Ken Gebhart, Jr., , Celestial Navigation, General Interest, 1The emergency here is twofold. First you have lost all electronic navigation, and secondly you don’t know how to...
A tragic tale I do confess I put my faith in GPS Then one day screen went black I...
Reproduced below is an article I wrote that accompanied a talk at the winter Wilderness Medicine Society meeting in...
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION IN THE GPS AGE by John Karl Its been a long time since we’ve seen a completely...
Celestial Navigation is seen today in a different light than before GPS became affordable and ubiquitous. Yes, it is...
A Sextant is an instrument with a graduated arc of 60° and a sighting mechanism, used for measuring the...
Celestial navigation is the use of angular measurements (sights) between celestial bodies and the visible horizon to locate one’s position in the...
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