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Celestial Navigation and Prisoners of War
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2022 Feb 17, 17:09 -0800
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2022 Feb 17, 17:09 -0800
We sometimes try to invent scenarios where celestial navigation might have some value in a modern context. I think this quaifies... Attached below is an article about some prisoners during the Second World War performing some basic celestial navigation, without sextants, in secret. I loved the bit where they determined the approximate time of local noon by observing the navigators all turning their sextants to read them mid-day after taking, what they assumed to be, the noon sight. It's a clever deduction based on the social behavior of navigators!
Frank Reed
