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Celestial Navigation Net (Popularity:  )
http://www.celestialnavigation.net/
Annotated hub site of resources relating to navigating by the stars, including theory, practice, history, instruments, and classroom links.
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Royal Institute of Navigation (Popularity: )
http://www.rin.org.uk/
About the London based organization. Membership information. Online newsletter and briefings. Mailing list. Search the organizations library or journals. Competitions ...
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US Coast Guard Navigation Center (Popularity: )
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
News, updates and advisories. Links to local US Coast Guards sites. Downloadable publications.
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Nordic Institute of Navigation (Popularity: )
http://www.nornav.org/
About the organization. Membership information. Meeting programs. Discussion forum.
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The Institute of Navigation (Popularity: )
http://www.ion.org/
Meeting programs with abstracts. Award winners and nomination forms. Membership information. Online version of the quarterly newsletter. Index of the ...
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Near-Earth Navigation and Geodesy (Popularity: )
http://nng.esoc.esa.de/
Describes the activities and research of the Navigation Research Office at the European Space Operations Center.
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A Short Guide to Celestial Navigation (Popularity: )
http://home.t-online.de/home/h.umland/
Downloadable electronic book. Also several shareware programs.
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German Institute of Navigation (DGON) (Popularity: )
http://www.dgon.de/content/englisch/englisch.htm
About the organization.
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Celestial Navigation Forum (Popularity: )
http://jollyroger.com/zz/yna4d/CelestialNavigationhall/shakespeare1.html
Discussion forum and live chat.
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Lunar Rover Demonstration Navigation Group (Popularity: )
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/lri-3/www/lrd/nav-home.html
About the Carnegie Mellon researchers creating a prototype for a new lunar rover that can navigate rugged terrain and the ...
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Navigation and Related Subjects (Popularity: )
http://jacq.istos.com.au/sundry/navig.html
Covers celestial navigation theory, sextant errors and corrections, rhumb line caluclations and coastal navigation and conning.
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Bowditch Online (Popularity: )
http://www.irbs.com/bowditch/
Navigation course containing 38 chapters covering charts, radar, astronomy, and regulations. Glossary. Archives for the navigation mailing list.
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Sailing Issues: Navigation Course (Popularity: )
http://www.sailingissues.com/navcourse0.html
Contains nine chapters covering piloting, plotting, navigation aids, and tides. Related equations and tables.
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Digital Navigation Publications (Popularity: )
http://164.214.12.145/pubs/
Downloadable publications from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency including The American Practical Navigator and Radio Navigational Aids.
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The Complete On-Board Celestial Navigator (Popularity: )
http://www.netspace.net.au/~gbennett/
About a reference book for navigation at sea. Includes table of contents and purchasing information.
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The History of the Sextant (Popularity: )
http://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm
Transcript of a talk given at the Science Museum of The University of Coimbra. Includes photos of ancient devices.
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The Seamans Secrets (Popularity: )
http://www.mcallen.lib.tx.us/books/seasecr/dseasec1.htm
Text from a book originally printed in 1657 that discusses tides, declinations, and other marine navigation topics.
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Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific (Popularity: )
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/navigation/Intro.html
Covers the role, techniques, and tools of the Carolinian navigator. From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Secrets of Ancient Navigation (Popularity: )
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/secrets.html
An overview from the PBS show "The Search for Longitude".
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The History of the Sextant (Popularity: )
http://pwifland.tripod.com/historysextant/
The evolution from the earliest instruments to the sophisticated devices used today described and illustrated.
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