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TabletClass.com - http://www.tabletclass.com Math. This video explains the basics of how math is used in celestial navigation. When people first started to ...
Tonight I am starting a Celestial Navigation Course at Naval Point Club Lyttelton. I am a bit apprehensive as I don't enjoy working with numbers and calculations, so we shall see how we go! I am planning on taking notes and writing them up here on my blog so that I can refer back to…
Once upon a time people thought that the earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun and stars all revolved around us (sounds a bit like one of my ex-boyfriends). These ancient people started mapping the sun and the stars on to a sphere - the Celestial Sphere - basically it is…
Boy today's study has got me dusting off the cobwebs of my brain. I don't like maths, and with the added complication of degrees, minutes and seconds... arraggh! So Local Hour Angle - LHA... "What is that!?" I hear you cry. Well let's find out together... You will recall from one of my previous posts…
A good comprehensive guide to Celestial Navigation.
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Navigation by stars has been the oldest and the most conventional way of navigating in the vast oceanic expanse. Technological advancements might have enabled and provided far more pin-point precision than star navigation contemporarily, but fact remains that celestial navigation was one of the highlights of the ancient maritime era.
Editor’s note: In this installment of our celestial navigation series, we take a look at the arcane but still intriguing subject of lunar distance sights for finding time and longitude. In this series, we’ve started from the most basic concepts and worked our way through every type of sight in celestial navigation: sun sights, star
Apologies for the delay between posts, I have had my boat in the haul out yard over the weekend and that has occupied all my study time! So to summarize where are are at so far in regards to our celestial navigation studies. We have covered off: The Sextant and how to take a reading…
We have been jumping around topics a bit, so I thought it might be best to put together a bit of a summary of what we have learned so far, what we still have to cover and how it is all eventually going to come together. It has certainly been useful for me to break…
Cornell, Joseph: Celestial Navigation by Birds
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This post is a slightly modified transcript of a talk I gave on celestial navigation. As some of you know, I like to build things, and I recently decided to build some classic navigational tools. O…
This post covers how we go about estimating and plotting our position using traditional methods, when out of sight of land - covering Dead Reckoning, Estimated Position, Tidal Streams, Leeway and more...
When history speaks of the great explorers of the world we often hear brave stories of conquest and discovery. These stories, with the likes of Magellan, the
Disney's Moana is a remarkably accurate depiction of how Polynesian peoples navigate by the stars, and draws attention to the richness of Indigenous astronomy, write Duane Hamacher and Carla Bento
Polynesians were arguably some of the world's best explorers. Using nothing but the stars, elements, and currents, they successfully navigated the Pacific Ocean in a time when European explorers would never leave sight ot land.
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