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Lu:

Well said.

If I may, I believe that Hanno's close is even more eloquent. For myself, I don't know about this touching of one's soul, maybe, maybe not, however the following I think applies.

Speaking of Celestial Navigation as I practice it, shooting off the beach in North Carolina, when I manage to get down to it or using an old Davis Artificial Horizon in the parking area of the apartment complex where we reside, getting a calculated fix that is usually within 2 NM of known coordinates provides me with a feeling of having accomplished something, small and inconsequential though it may be. Possibly I'm to easily amused, but that's how it strikes me.

Of course, a hand held GPS unit will provide one's coordinates to an accuracy of 10 feet or so, however using one amounts to accepting the numbers produced by the proverbial "black box", which I neither control nor really understand. Human input is lacking, not the case with Celestial Navigation, and therein remains Cel Navs value, human input, imperfect though is may be.
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