Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator...

Celestial navigation is the practice of position fixing that allows a navigator to move through space. Celestial navigation may also refer to: Celestial...

The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation. It is also the...

revolutionary transition since the 1990s with traditional navigation tasks, like performing celestial navigation, being used less frequently. Using multiple independent...

"Celestial Navigation" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American serial political drama The West Wing. The episode aired on February...

Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately...

Celestial Navigation is a 1974 novel by Anne Tyler. This was her 5th novel. This story is set in the 1960s in a Baltimore rowhouse/boarding house, owned...

between an astronomical object and the horizon for the purposes of celestial navigation. The estimation of this angle, the altitude, is known as sighting...

enable them to strike land. Celestial navigation uses angular measurements (sights) between the horizon and a common celestial object. The Sun is most often...

and the pole. Navigation and location of the ship by geopositioning techniques based on the observation of the stars and other celestial bodies. The variables...

with great precision which is necessary when reducing sights in celestial navigation. Nocturnal used to determine apparent local time by viewing the Polaris...

tons. In the thirteenth century celestial navigation was already known, guided by the sun position. For celestial navigation the Portuguese, like other Europeans...

Celestial Navigations was an American music and story-telling group, connected to the Church of Scientology, with members Geoffrey Lewis, Geoff Levin...

ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time...

tons. In the thirteenth century celestial navigation was already known, guided by the sun position. For celestial navigation the Portuguese, like other Europeans...

1989). "Program ASTROCLK: Astronomical Clock and Celestial Tracking Program with Celestial Navigation". p. 110. Pickering, Danby, ed. (1765). The Statutes...

In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərɪs/; pl. ephemerides /ˌɛfəˈmɛrɪˌdiːz/; from Latin ephemeris 'diary', from Ancient Greek ἐφημερίς...

A kamal, often called simply khashaba (wood in Arabic), is a celestial navigation device that determines latitude. The invention of the kamal allowed for...

In celestial navigation, lunar distance, also called a lunar, is the angular distance between the Moon and another celestial body. The lunar distances...

In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth. All objects in...

the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their...

astro-inertial guidance system (ANS), which could correct inertial navigation system errors with celestial observations, for the SM-62 Snark missile, and a separate...

In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane (containing Earth's axis and the zenith) and the...

sphere, which is a fundamental concept of the ancient discipline of celestial navigation — termed the altitude intercept problem. Moreover, if more than the...

of the asterism, Merak (β) and Dubhe (α). This makes it useful in celestial navigation. The constellation of Ursa Major (Latin: Greater Bear) has been seen...

used in ancient Greece and India for applications to astronomy and celestial navigation, and continued to be widely used until electronic calculators became...

the past, astronomy included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy, and the making of calendars. Professional...

other ships, consistent with a long nautical tradition of accurate celestial navigation. Nautical time divides the globe into 24 nautical time zones with...

inertial navigation system, which measures the boat’s motion and constantly updates position. Because it does not rely on radio signals or celestial sightings...

approximately with its northern axis that serves as a pre-eminent star in celestial navigation, and a much dimmer magnitude 5.5 star on its southern axis, Polaris...