Some Resources Connected with the Events of the Navigation Weekend

• I've assembled a long, fairly detailed list of historical navigation books available online. There's Bowditch and Moore and Norie and Taylor, as well as many historical nautical almanacs and other remarkable books that existed only in research libraries until just a few years ago:
  Navigation Books Online
• Philip Sadler showed a brief video from 1987 in which Harvard graduates on commencement day are asked to explain what causes the seasons. They get it wrong. Here's a link to the video in its entirety: “A Private Universe” (click on VoD).
  You will need to sign up but access is free.
• Dave Walden prepared an analysis of using Bennett's “Complete On-board” tables to clear lunars. He has provided this for anyone interested:
  Lunars by Bennett
• I showed a complete lunar distance calculation from 1825 in one of my talks. Here's a page where I've outlined all the steps in the calculation:
  1825 Lunar
• Here is the Celestaire web site where you can check on Ken Gebhart's latest product line:
  Celestaire
• The Sea Education Association at Woods Hole. They've sailed over a million miles in their sail training vessels, much of that with celestial navigation:
  SEA home page
• Please visit the web site of “Centennia Software”, publishers of the “Centennia Historical Atlas”:
  HistoricalAtlas.com.
  This is my web site.
• And of course here's Mystic Seaport's collection of digitized books, journals, logbooks, and other fascinating documents:
  Mystic Seaport Library.
  Among my favorites is the logbook of the ship Sabina from 1849.
  (Mystic Seaport library URLs changed sometime between July 2008 and January 2010 -now updated).