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    Re: CelNav without sextants
    From: Alexandre Eremenko
    Date: 2004 Nov 3, 01:09 -0500

    Frank,
    
    On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Frank Reed wrote:
    
    > Another related game: are there circumstances under
    > which you can navigate
    > celestially without a sextant, without a timepiece,
    > AND without an almanac (of
    > any type)?
    > I think the almanac is the "technological artifact" that is most
    > difficult to do without...
    
    I only see how to find latitude, using Polaris
    and some home-made angle measuring instrument.
    But longitude without almanac??
    Could you give a hint?
    
    Alex.
    
    
    

       
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