PORTSMOUTH – The Boatshop at Strawbery Banke is offering a concise two-day course in the theory and practice of basic celestial navigation on June 10 and 11. “Navigating by the Stars” will be taught ...

Two new training modules for celestial navigation and geodesy and maps are now accessible to fleet users via the MetEd portal at https://www.meted.ucar.edu. "Principles of Celestial Navigation" ...

After a nine-year absence from the curriculum at the United States Naval Academy (USNO) and 15 years from Naval ROTC programs, tomorrow's naval officers are once again learning to navigate by the ...

Imagine life without GPS. For those of us old enough, that might not be hard to do. For younger people, it’s almost unimaginable. Now imagine that GPS — for whatever reason — is suddenly unavailable.

A Feb. 22 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims a form of navigation that relies on celestial objects such as the sun, moon and stars proves the Earth is flat and stationary. "The Ancients ...

AT SEA - It is 4 a.m., a Logistics Support Vessel is out in the ocean and suddenly a flash thunderstorm erupts. The boat's navigation system has just shut down. What happened' There are still two ...

Spring is the best time of year to try some basic celestial navigation. It’s easy, it’s fun, and you don’t need a telescope to do it. Use the map to guide you. Start with the Big Dipper, the central ...