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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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