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The organization focuses on many related interests: telescopes, binoculars, astrophotography, computer planetaria, astronautics, cosmology, meteors, rocketry, sky lore andcelestialnavigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Therefore, it makes an excellent fixed point from which to draw measurements forcelestialnavigationand for astrometry.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Latitude can be determined throughcelestialnavigation; the measurement of longitude requires accurate knowledge of time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This requires that the ship's position be determined, using standard methods including dead reckoning,celestialnavigation, pilotage, and electronic navigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Celestialnavigationuses angular measurements (sights) between the horizon and a common celestial object.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It was unnatural, even though the arithmetic was calledcelestialnavigation.
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The equations of motion of the moons, planets and other bodies are known with great accuracy, and are used to generate tables forcelestialnavigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The set includes systems for designing starships and forcelestialnavigation, and visual displays representing planetary systems for design and space travel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This suggests that they use a technique ofcelestialnavigationcalled transverse orientation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The most accurate, known as "astronomical regulators", were used in observatories for astronomy, surveying, andcelestialnavigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The creation of this fake log was an incredibly intricate process, involving workingcelestialnavigationin reverse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1896, he invented the bubble sextant for use incelestialnavigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The third crewman station had the sextant forcelestialnavigationand the defensive electronic counter measures equipment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Specialized tables were published for applications such as astronomy,celestialnavigationand statistics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They return and save the city from invasion with the help of the three inventions they find or discover:celestialnavigation, horsemanship and alphabetic writing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Originally, race participants were only allowed to usecelestialnavigation; electronic navigation was added in 1997.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The first is to obtain a line of position by use of a sextant observation and the techniques ofcelestialnavigation.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Celestialnavigationcontinues to be used by private yachtsmen, and particularly by long-distance cruising yachts around the world.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Celestialnavigationuses sights, or angular measurements taken between a celestial body (the sun, the moon, a planet or a star) and the visible horizon.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecelestialnavigationtraining unit instructed pilots being assigned to patrol squadrons.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.