Disagreement between celestial navigation fixes and chronocompass

Howdy folks, I'm in a bit of a pickle.

I set out from New Port towards Happy Bay with a few hundred pounds (kilos?) of cargo intending to layover there and then pick up some contracts going to Aestrin because I wanna play with the Brig. I set out using dead reckoning to try and keep track of my progress alongside multiple nav fixes throughout the day (daytime fixes by way of an Emerald Archipelago chronocompass, night time fixes on Milnead and Witena at their respective times, and Polaris/the north star for latitude updates), and over time the day time and night time fixes started to disagree with each other by several degrees, to the point that I don't think it's an reading error (god I hope a sextant with a proper eyepiece and a better graduated scale is in the future).

So now I'm lost in what I think is the area around Happy Bay- like, close enough that I feel like I should be able to see it, around 35N Lat, +3E Long as determined through star fixes, but my chronocompass is reading 35N Lat and more like +6E Long. Milnead and Witena nav fixes agree with each other for longitude, and a variance that big seems like it can't really be a read error. Anyone else have any experience using the Emerald Archipelago chronocompass? It seems like it's significantly more difficult to read than the Al'Ankh one is (both due to the busier crossbar supports, and the woodgrain texture on the face making it difficult to pick up the end of the pointer shadow). Also I guess any advice? Happy Bay looks like it should be a pretty easy to pick out landmass and I'm running low on provisions.

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Calculated sextant reading - Celestial navigation

I have been studying celestial navigation for the past week and am a bit confused about the calculated sextant reading of my assumed position.

So basically, if I take a sextant reading (Hs) and correct it for the index error, dip and for the altitude and limb correction, I get the height observed (Ho), which I use to enter the tables.

However, when I get to the calculated sextant reading (Hs), then does it correspond to the (Hs) or to the (Ho) I would have gotten at the assumed position?

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Celestial navigation - Sunsights

I am at the moment studying astronomy in the context of celestial navigation and would hope someone could explain the following:

If I get a sextant reading of the Sun (when it is not at noon) and get my line of position, then why can I not determine my exact position by simply taking a compass bearing of the Sun and drawing a straight line? Instead (if I am either sailing at a low speed or standing still) I would need to take a second reading later on in the day to get a second line of position and determine my position to be where the lines overlap.

Am I missing something with my logic of simply taking the bearing of the first sighting and draw a straight line from that point to my line of position?

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((( πŸ’£ πŸ„))) Cold War II News: Better get a sextant and learn celestial navigation. gpsworld.com/russia-issue…
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They won't forward this into their denialist subreddit because is proving that flat earthers have no idea about CELESTIAL NAVIGATION. youtu.be/fn9xMkNUMmY
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The Celestial Navigation Instrument of the SR-71 Blackbird Reconnaisance Aeroplane + a Close-Up of its Gimballed Telescope [2844Γ—2000]
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Celestial Navigation - cameraman can be seen in mirror

Starting at 10:50, if you look in the mirror above the fireplace in the Mural Room, you can see the lower body of the cameraman (and what I'm assuming is the cable guy behind him) and watch him as he pans the camera around and steps backwards out of the room in front of Martin Sheen. I notice something new every rewatch.

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The SR-71 used a highly sensitive celestial navigation computer to navigate as it predated GPS satellites. It was sensitive enough to see the stars while sitting on the runway in daylight with clouds
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Why is sextant better than octant in celestial navigation?

I am doing a project on celestial navigation and i am trying to learn about it. I was wondering why do we use 1/6th of a circle only why not some other angle? Is it because the reflection increases the spread to 120 degrees. Also isn't the higher angles causes more errors in the calculation like making the positional arc smaller so we can't approximate it to a line.

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TWWW Celestial Navigation

I've been a fan of the show basically my entire life and rewatch at least some portion twice a year plus whenever I'm down. I was holding off on the podcast until they had done the whole series so I could binge it with or without a rewatch.

I've just gotten to TWWW episode on Celestial Navigation and it's honestly enough to want to abandon the entire podcast. Listening to Malina say that because he didn't see the racism, he can't believe it, is so troubling as a Black woman and it surprises me there weren't posts in this subreddit or the one for the podcast about it.

Their recording obviously predates this past summer of unrest due to racism in policing but it's not like that's a new issue in America. The episode is from 2016; it wasn't that long ago! But hearing someone who prides themself on being a good Democrat saying that without video evidence, he's just not sold it was a bad arrest hurts. It's just a reminder that without footage of police commiting acts of injustice, even self proclaimed liberals will be quick in their defense of a system that proves its own intolerance daily.

I know a lot of this subreddit is white and a lot of viewers, when the show originally aired and now re/watching are white and have perhaps recently learned that we didn't solve racism in 1965. But please know that when you say you need video evidence to believe Black (edit: and all POC) people that the cops were racist, the arrest was bad, the shooting was unjust, you are gaslighting the endless victims of these crimes against their humanity, dignity, and freedom.

And obviously that's not the fault of Malina, but that attitude is so apathetic to the unending BI&POC who face these issues everyday of our lives.

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Behavioral experiments with dung beetles demonstrated that light pollution disrupted their ability to orient themselves using natural celestial cues, dramatically changing their navigation behavior. cell.com/current-biology/…
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I'd just like to point out I'm already building spaceports and just now getting celestial navigation
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West Wing Wednesday: Celestial Navigation w/ Clay & Britt Keller open.spotify.com/episode/…
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TIL Harriet Tubman, the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, relied on celestial navigation to guide herself and others along their route. They used the Big Dipper (which resembled a drinking gourd) to find the North Star, and they followed that beacon to freedom. resources.billofrightsins…
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Celestial navigation

Do seafarers know well celestial navigation or they just pray that they won't ever gonna need it?

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Dung beetles use celestial navigation to know where they're going theinternetsaysitstrue.co…
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Zuwe - Celestial Navigation is out now on Cosmic Vector cosmicvector.bandcamp.com…
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celestial navigation
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eLearning course celestial navigation?

Does anyone know any good online course for celestial navigation/astronavigation? I received my country's equivalent of the yachtmaster, but would like to delve deeper into the topic on a theoretical basis during the second lockdown. English, dutch or german courses would be fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

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A nautical almanac is a publication that describes the positions of stars to enable navigators to use celestial navigation to determine their position at sea. Because the positions of stars are not fixed, a nautical almanac needs to be continuously revised.
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I have Celestial Navigation, allowing traders to embark. Why can't I trade with Mombasa?
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Any Practical Celestial Navigation Book?

I've been looking for a practical celestial navigation book for the intent of camping and hiking, I can only find advanced sailing type of content though, do you guys know any reading that could help me?

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TIL - the navy is now teaching sailors Celestial Navigation as a response to potential cyber attacks to ship navigation systems. boingboing.net/2015/10/17…
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I'm making an age-of-sail sim with celestial navigation, figured I'd show r/sailing! v.redd.it/3gy56yayuhk31
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In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth. The celestial sphere is a practical tool for spherical astronomy, allowing astronomers to specify the apparent positions of objects in the sky.
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Celestial navigation is possible only because the Earth is spherical. We make use of the knowledge of the correct figure of the Earth for the purposes of navigation. Using a sextant, we measured the angle between Polaris and the horizon. The angle would be the latitude of our current position.
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Celestial Navigation in Scum?

The stars in Scum are really spectacular, and I think I might be able to see Orion's Belt, but not sure.

Is scums sky representing the actual night sky?

If so, from where?

If not, why the hell not?

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Celestial Navigation

What a great pick me up from the current state of the world.

CJs woot canaw

β€œC.J., so help me if you use the words β€œPwesident” or β€œbwiefed” again.”

The entire scene in the Oval Office at the end.

β€œIf anyone asks, you quit smoking years ago and the cigarette you bummed off Air Force one was for a friend.”

β€œGet out.”

I was giggling to myself the whole time at 3am.

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Some perspective on relative size of some familiar navigational stars for the deck officers/cadets who practice their celestial navigation. v.redd.it/wmltnsbi7v961
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Celestial navigation with a protractor. I got tired of holding it up to the screen every time I planned a transfer burn, so I stuck the protractor on a back scratcher. Works great.
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Can someone tell me why I can't sand my trader Qusqu? I have celestial navigation.
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Astronauts Alan Bean and Ted Freeman learning celestial navigation at the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, NC, 1963
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β€œYou don’t have to go Galileo, it’s not celestial navigation” instagram.com/tv/CG7z4kTn…
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How to learn Celestial Navigation?

Hi All!

I'm looking to get going on sailing lessons and certification in the spring. I'd like to take care of some "off-the-boat" skills until then. Knot tying I have down, but I want to get into celestial navigation. I'm the type of person who likes to get down to the very basics of a thing, so while I'll have GPS and backup GPS for sure, I want to have manual experience. Are there any recommended online courses or books?

Thanks so much!

Edit* Thank you for the fast and varied responses!

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The Astra-Gnome β€œTime and Space Car” by Richard Arbib, 1956. It featured a β€œcelestial time-zone clock” for flight-type navigation.
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How European sailors learned celestial navigation – Margaret Schotte | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/how-europe…
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Add celestial navigation to any EV3 build with Raspberry PI codeproject.com/Articles/…
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Do ships today like LNG, Tankers, and containers still use Celestial Navigation?

I wonder if they are obsolete now or not?

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Request: recommendations for books on astronomy and celestial navigation?

I'm interested in eventually learning to use a sextant to determine position and heading over the earth's surface, but initially what I want to do is memorize stars, constellations, their movement patterns, and how to recognize them at different times of the year. Got any book recs for a beginner?

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Celestial navigation - Sunsights

I am at the moment studying astronomy in the context of celestial navigation and would hope someone could explain the following:

If I get a sextant reading of the Sun (when it is not at noon) and get my line of position, then why can I not determine my exact position by simply taking a compass bearing of the Sun and drawing a straight line? Instead (if I am either sailing at a low speed or standing still) I would need to take a second reading later on in the day to get a second line of position and determine my position to be where the lines overlap.

Am I missing something with my logic of simply taking the bearing of the first sighting and apply that knowledge to locate myself on the line of position?

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Any Practical Celestial Navigation Book?

I've been looking for a practical celestial navigation book for the intent of camping and hiking, I can only find advanced sailing type of content though, do you guys know any reading that could help me?

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Any Practical Celestial Navigation Book?

I've been looking for a practical celestial navigation book for the intent of camping and hiking, I can only find advanced sailing type of content though, do you guys know any reading that could help me?

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