The Navy is once again teaching celestial navigation as a back up in case GPS systems become unusable. Celestial navigation, sometimes referred to as astronavigation, is a way for a navigator to use ...

Earth's coordinates and the Celestial SphereI’m dusting off the plastic tub where I keep all the materials for my Celestial Navigation class, in preparation for teaching it again, starting March 4. It ...

It's still Gemini season for me, even though the sun passed the final degrees into the next zodiac sign. It's an accidental alignment from a 26,000-year cosmic wobble most people won't notice. It made ...

Tucked away on the sixth floor of Butler Library lies an exploration of the past, present, and future of celestial navigation. “Celestial Navigation,” curated by Jeannie Rhyu, CC ’17, SoA ’26, opened ...

It was how Odysseus sailed the seas, how Columbus reached the Americas, and how Lawrence of Arabia found his way across the vast, featureless deserts of the Middle East. For millennia, travellers used ...

The ancient art of navigating by the stars is making a comeback at the U.S. Naval Academy. The academy did away with teaching classes on celestial navigation in 1998 and replaced it with GPS and ...