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    Re: The Future of Celestial Navigation: A British Viewpoint
    From: Frank Reed
    Date: 2013 Sep 2, 10:45 -0700

    Lu, you wrote:
    "Would it be possible to fabricate a relatively inexpensive system that can be mounted on a ship and automatically take sights?"

    Of course. At what cost? And what legislation would enforce its installation?

    In fact, there was a presentation by George Kaplan from the same conference entitled "Automating Celestial Navigation". The top directory is browsable (like an FTP listing) so if you go here:
    ftp://tycho.usno.navy.mil/pub/TimeAndNavigation/
    you can look at the list of presentations. Unfortunately, these are just PDFs of the PowerPoint slides from the talks so you're only getting a hint of the material covered.

    -FER
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