Recent Additions
NEW!!! 

So many of you have asked about Marvin Creamer, who sailed around the world without instruments. Ralph Harvey knows Mr. Creamer and have set up a website at www.globestar.org.

Thank you, Ralph!

 

 

The "Land and Sea Collection" is 

the source for fine quality ship and aircraft models,  vintage ships clocks, polished brass nautica, shipbuilders plates, marine antiques, and is the largest seller of used and pre-owned marine sextants on the internet.

I checked out this site and it was awesome!   See it at http://www.landandseacollection.com/

 

 Starpath School of Navigation has a new celestial navigation course that you can do online. This is the same course that taught me everything I know, but with updated materials.  I have received the materials and they are even better than the ones I used.

Click on the link for the Starpath home page.

 

New book on Viking Navigation by
Leif K. Karlsen: Secrets of the Viking Navigators

 

NEW BOOK by Peter Ifland and Michel Vanvaerenbergh:   Line of Position Navigation: Sumner and Saint-Hilaire,  The Two Pillars of Modern Celestial Navigation 

New link for Palm Pilot Celnav Program

Celestaire's Cardboard Sextant Kit

Omar Reis's Interactive Sextant on the "Instruments" Page; also his "Build Your Own Sextant"  on the "Classroom" Page.

Sight Worksheets on Reader page

AstroNav  PC and Compact Data and other SOFTWARE is at the bottom of the "Practice" page.

Sail the Sounds Celestial Navigation Course on "Schools" page.

Bowditch's American Practical Navigator - Now with Tables!! On "Practice" and "Classroom" pages.

David Thompson and Land Navigation (19th century America) on "Classroom" Page.

Pocket Stars PC Program  - Integrated Star Chart, Ephemeris, and Celestial Navigation Software for the Pocket PC
Bowditch Initiative Website - Nathaniel Bowditch on "Classroom" page.

Nova's Shockwave Game on Finding Your Latitude on "Classroom" Page

Navigating Around the World By Observing the Sun on "Classroom" page

How A Sextant Works and Navigating by Sextant on the "Instruments" page

How Columbus and Apollo Astronauts Navigated on "Classroom" page

Celestial Navigation for Dummies on "Practice"

ASNAv and Delta Win on "Practice"

The Abaco Wild Horse Fund on "Other Links" page

"The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories" on "Other Links"

Helmer Aslaksen's page on Cultural Astronomy - See "Other Links" and also Astronomy page for comment on the java applets Helmer has available.

Aboriginal (Native American) Astronomy - See "Classroom" page

Ed Falk's Sample Page from the Silicon Sea Series (say that three times fast!) - See "Practice" Page

African Star Lore - "Classroom" page

Longitude at Sea, from the Galileo Project - "Classroom" page

Astronomy without a Telescope - "Astronomy" and "Classroom"

David Thompson and Land Navigation - "Classroom"

Civil and Nautical Twilight; Sunrise Set, Moonrise and Set

Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe - "Instruments" page - "Instruments" page

Peter Ifland's lecture, THE HISTORY OF THE SEXTANT - "Instruments"

Celestial Themes in Art and Architecture at Dartmouth - "Dante" page

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