NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Jeremy C
Date: 2013 May 3, 06:23 -0700
Actually, you don't have to trust it at all. The quality of the horizon is directly related to my fix confidence. Good horizon = high fix confidence. Poor horizon = low fix confidence.
Through comparison of my celnav fixes and GPS while noting the different looks of the horizon, I have become pretty good at determining what quality of horizon I am facing.
What I need to do now is take some photos and write some text to make it easier to understand. I think that will be my project during my next trip at sea.
Fortunately for the surface navigators such as myself, this is mid-ocean navigation and a few miles off isn't usually going to get me in trouble, even when the horizon is poor.
Jeremy
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