Location Without GPS - Celestial Navigation is Back

​​​​Did you know that celestial navigation is back?

Until NPR covered it last week, I didn’t actually know it was gone. For those of you that would proudly classify yourselves as “landlubbers”, you might only think about celestial navigation when you watch a historical movie with mariners of the olden days and so may not have realized that it was a mandatory navigation skill for sailors. As a Coast Guard Academy Cadet and then a Deck Watch Officer in the 80s, celestial navigation was ever present for me as I struggled to learn it at the Academy and then used it regularly while standing watch on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Diligence. 

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