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

Celestial Navigations was an American music and story-telling group with members Geoffrey Lewis, Geoff Levin, David Campbell, Eric Zimmerman, Bettie Ross...

Capitol Records. Together with Geoffrey Lewis in 1970, he created Celestial Navigations, a storytelling group, that produced 8 albums, several made the...

Navigational Aids. The second critical component of celestial navigation is to measure the angle formed at the observer's eye between the celestial body...

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

the 1980s, Lewis was also a member of musical storytelling group Celestial Navigations with musician and songwriter Geoff Levin. Lewis was married three...

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

and Pacific oceans, the oceanic navigations made it possible to populate all the archipelagoes (Polynesian navigation). However, the possibility of reaching...

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

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...

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

Witze, Alexandra (2018). "NASA test proves pulsars can function as a celestial GPS". Nature. 553 (7688): 261–262. Bibcode:2018Natur.553..261W. doi:10...

"Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-10-21. Popova, Maria (2010-02-11). "'Celestial Navigations':...

with the motions of celestial objects Celestial navigation, a position-fixing technique that helps sailors cross the oceans Celestial pole, the two points...

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

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

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

In astronomy and celestial navigation, an ephemeris (/ɪˈfɛmərəs/; pl. ephemerides /ˌɛfəˈmɛrədiːz/; from Latin ephemeris 'diary', and Greek ἐφημερίς (ephemeris) 'diary...

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...