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How do we get ship’s position by star sight ?

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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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