F-0209 Celestial Navigation

USN film on star navigation from 1942.
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[@Random4x5]

06:52 the small star in Orion called Saiph !

[@rn-wilx3952]

All the stars have Arabic names

[@dkoz8321]

Celestial nav is almost 2K year old technology and art. Still I do not have any mastery of it. I don't understand, how looking up at night, and seeing a star , tells you its name. Theu all look same. In Artillery school survey training, we had identify Kochab. I was clueless. Could not do it. Still cant. Non one single damned NCO instructor could explain to me how to do it.

[@swainscheps]

Anybody who says ‘the Great Dipper’ probably also says ‘Los Angeles’ with a hard G….

[@Thebonesoftrees]

This is awesome,thank you.

[@charlesallan6771]

Have you heard about the boom on Mizar 5 ? People got to shout to stay alive.