Welcome to the NavList Message Boards.

NavList:

A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding

Compose Your Message

Message:αβγ
Message:abc
Add Images & Files
    Name or NavList Code:
    Email:
       
    Reply
    Re: Emergency Navigation
    From: Lu Abel
    Date: 2012 Jul 15, 11:13 -0700
    Can we have a re-statement of the problem?   As I recollect, it was "you land at at a totally unknown place on earth with NO instruments or tables, can you figure out where you are?"   

    I read that as "whatever you bring in your head and whatever you can construct out of locally available materials."   To me, at least, that rules out baseball caps, credit cards, even tattoos. 


    From: "eremenko@math.purdue.edu" <eremenko@math.purdue.edu>
    To: NavList@fer3.com
    Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:57 AM
    Subject: [NavList] Re: Emergency Navigation


    Thanks.
    One can wear it with a Bris sextant as a pendant on the neck:-)
    Now we can discuss what to print on it:-)
    First of all, Sun declination, equation of time
    (or a beautiful anlemma instead), and refraction table.
    Coordinates of the principal stars...

    What else?
    Lunar distance table for 2 years in the format of an XVIII century
    almanac may fit conveniently...

    Alex.



    >>Why not to make T-shirts with emergency almanac data printed on them?

    > Brilliant!







       
    Reply
    Browse Files

    Drop Files

    NavList

    What is NavList?

    Get a NavList ID Code

    Name:
    (please, no nicknames or handles)
    Email:
    Do you want to receive all group messages by email?
    Yes No

    A NavList ID Code guarantees your identity in NavList posts and allows faster posting of messages.

    Retrieve a NavList ID Code

    Enter the email address associated with your NavList messages. Your NavList code will be emailed to you immediately.
    Email:

    Email Settings

    NavList ID Code:

    Custom Index

    Subject:
    Author:
    Start date: (yyyymm dd)
    End date: (yyyymm dd)

    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site