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These days, there is an enormous amount of information available on celestial navigation.
Which means there is also a lot of noise to sift through.
And when you do sift through it, you still have to answer one question:
How do you apply all of this knowledge practically on board the ship.
Talking specifically about star sight, there are tons of resources that deals with the calculation part.
Be it Longitude by chronometer or intercept method calculations.
Most of us know all these calculations but only that much. But how can we use these to calculate the sight ?
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About Capt Rajeev Jassal
Capt. Rajeev Jassal has sailed for over 24 years mainly on crude oil, product and chemical tankers. He holds MBA in shipping & Logistics degree from London. He has done extensive research on quantitatively measuring Safety culture onboard and safety climate ashore which he believes is the most important element for safer shipping.
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