The astrolabe, a complex instrument utilized by ancient mariners, is key to establishing latitude by observing celestial ...

There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables, knowledge of the ...

Celestial navigation has been practiced for thousands of years. In theory, all you need is your eyes and some knowledge of how the Sun, Moon and stars move in the skies throughout the seasons to ...

A remarkable series of experiments shows that migratory birds navigate by the stars. In a planetarium their flight direction is controlled by the position of the stars in the artificial sky ...

According to a recent study, remote sensing engineers from the University of South Australia have integrated celestial navigation with vision-based technologies to develop an alternative method ...

Celestial navigation could make a comeback by being integrated into drones to defeat GNSS jamming. Credit: UniSA. Australian researchers have responded to a surge in jamming attacks to develop a ...