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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Hello from new member
From: Joe Kliment
Date: 2003 Jan 29, 12:19 -0500
From: Joe Kliment
Date: 2003 Jan 29, 12:19 -0500
The US Power Squadrons offer two courses in celestial navigation, both of which are excellent. Junior Navigator is the introductory course and Navigator is the final theory course. They are based on the nautical almanac and cosines method of sight reduction. I have utilized these methods many times while on deliveries. Check the USPS web site to get information on their courses and the closest squadron. Capt Joe Kliment Wilmington Power Squadron W3HZM Middletown, De At 05:40 AM 1/29/03 -0500, you wrote: >For what it is worth, it seems that the Coast Guard and the Auxillary no >longer have a course in celestial navigation. Granted it is old technology, >but someone needs to know how to get home when the GPS quits working. > > >George Istok > >-----Original Message----- >On Behalf Of Smith_Peter@EMC.COM >Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:22 AM > >It's clear that traditional surveying and navigation have much in >common: trigonometry, interesting instruments, being steamrolled >by GPS.
