celestial navigation
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She also knows celestial navigation and how to plot a course.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
Other, broader impacts could affect life worldwide: the presence of satellites contributes to a background glow in the sky that can disorient animals that rely on celestial navigation.
From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2022
To top it off, the crew managed this feat without the aid of maps or radio contact, using only celestial navigation and an atlas obtained from a library in New Zealand.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021
After serving in the Navy, he taught celestial navigation at the United States Naval Academy.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2017
With the compass gone they would have to depend entirely upon celestial navigation.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Bowen, Robert Sydney
