| In our third year at the National Defence Academy, we naval types branched off to learn celestial navigation and knots and splices. |
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| Far from being a mere passenger, Hattie kept the ship's weather logs, learned celestial navigation and even handled the vessel on some occasions. |
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| There's more to it than that, which is one of the basic rules of celestial navigation. |
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| At Annapolis, he took a course in celestial navigation, which engendered his love of the sky. |
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| Brooks and the navigator Matt Wachowicz added to the historical realism by practicing celestial navigation all the way to Hawaii. |
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| He taught coastal and celestial navigation for eight years and served in ten different positions at the Squadron, District and National levels. |
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| However, due to lengthy computations and the space needed for large charts, the timeworn system of celestial navigation was ill suited to the airplane cockpit. |
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| Mallarmé liked to sail, and wrote often of boats and celestial navigation. |
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| Noonan was using a combination of celestial navigation and dead reckoning. |
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| He gives a good description of celestial navigation. |
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| A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for educational presentations about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. |
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| These instruments were often made from solid materials like brass but were based on ancient practices of celestial navigation using the Sun, Moon, and stars. |
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| The company also has celestial navigation courses, in which sailors of all experience levels are introduced to the concept. |
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| Arab navigational tools like the astrolabe and quadrant were used for celestial navigation. |
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| For celestial navigation the Portuguese used the Ephemerides, which experienced a remarkable diffusion in the 15th century. |
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| For small cruising boat crews, celestial navigation is generally considered an essential skill when venturing beyond visual range of land. |
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| A variation on terrestrial celestial navigation was used to help orient the Apollo spacecraft en route to and from the Moon. |
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| Celestial navigation trainers combine a simple flight simulator with a planetarium in order to train aircraft crews in celestial navigation. |
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| Other methods of aerial navigation, such as celestial navigation, produced no signals but depended upon the skillful use of instruments and the cooperation of the weather. |
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| His plan was to use celestial navigation to keep the flight on course until it was within range of Itasca. |
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| In the thirteenth century celestial navigation was already known, guided by the sun position. |
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| For celestial navigation like other Europeans, they used Greek tools, like the astrolabe and quadrant, which they made easier and simpler. |
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| Andy Papageorge, remarked that celestial navigation in a K-ship was were assigned to each crew navigators. |
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| All of the airline's new A330s are being named after a star or constellation used by Polynesian voyagers for celestial navigation. |
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| For celestial navigation the Portuguese, like other Europeans, used Arab navigation tools, like the astrolabe and quadrant, which they made easier and simpler. |
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| Most people can master simpler celestial navigation procedures after a day or two of instruction and practice, even using manual calculation methods. |
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| The second critical component of celestial navigation is to measure the angle formed at the observer's eye between the celestial body and the sensible horizon. |
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| The foreword by HRH the Duke of York leads in to the opening chapters, which look at how navigation and navigational tools, celestial navigation, and surveying developed. |
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| From the early 1970s, he taught hundreds of yachtsmen and yachtswomen the art of celestial navigation, at the club and on the cliffs at South Head. |
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| Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless. |
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| An early example is the Link Celestial Navigation Trainer, used in the Second World War. |
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| Celestial navigation systems are based on observation of the positions of the Sun, Moon, Planets and navigational stars. |
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| Celestial navigation serves as a backup to the Global Positioning System. |
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