Basic principles of celestial navigation

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Nov 2004

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 72, Issue 11, pp. 1418-1424 (2004).

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Educational Aids, Celestial Mechanics

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Celestial navigation is a technique for determining one's geographic position by the observation of identified stars, identified planets, the Sun, and the Moon. This subject has a multitude of refinements which, although valuable to a professional navigator, tend to obscure the basic principles. I describe these principles, give an analytical solution of the classical two-star-sight problem without any dependence on prior knowledge of position, and include several examples. Some approximations and simplifications are made in the interest of clarity.

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