Celestial Navigation – Guided by the Observation of the Heavens
“The Bear, surnam’d the Wain, that round doth move about Orion, and keeps still above the billowy ocean; the slow-setting star Bootes call’d, by some the waggoner. Calypso warn’d him he his course should steer still to his left hand. Seventeen days did clear the cloudy night’s command in his moist way…” are the verses from the Book V of Homer’s Odyssey, yet ancient navigators have been finding their way from the heavens since the beginning of recorded history, if not before.
This art fueled by human curiosity, ingenuity and the everlasting perseverance to explore and discover strange new worlds has been being perfected for thousands of years. Should you desire to learn this ancient and noble art and sail without any modern technological terror using only Sun, Moon, a star or a planet then this is course for you.
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is an obsolete yet continuing practice of position fixing by the utilisation of stars and other celestial bodies, enabling […]
