celestial navigation

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Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that has steadily evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross featureless oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to enable them to know their position on the ocean. Celestial navigation uses "sights," or angular measurements taken between a visible celestial body (the sun, the moon, a planet or a star) and the visible horizon. The angle measured between the sun and the visible horizon is most commonly used. Skilled navigators can additionally use the moon, a planet or one of 57 navigational stars whose coordinates are tabulated in the Nautical Almanac and Air Almanacs. Celestial navigation is the process whereby angular measurements (sights) taken between celestial bodies in the sky and the visible horizon are used to locate one's position on the globe, on land as well as at sea. At any given instant of time, any celestial body is located directly over only one specific geographic point, or position on the Earth, whose address is described by latitude and longitude.

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  • Allgemeine Informationen
    • GTIN 09786130727574
    • Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
    • Genre Physik & Astronomie
    • EAN 9786130727574
    • Format Fachbuch
    • Titel celestial navigation
    • Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
    • Anzahl Seiten 92

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