Whats A Good Book On Celestial LAND Navigation?
Any celestial navigation book will work. What you need for Land Navigation is a sextant with a bubble horizon. Preferably an aircraft sextant. Otherwise the process is the same for land and sea. Aircraft sextants are more compact and durable than marine sextants, but basically do the same thing. http://celestaire.com/catalog/Aircraft_S… Now the Bad News … you will also need tables, or a calculator. The total package will probably weigh 5-10 lbs, and be somewhat delicate to be dragging around in a backpack. Best accuracy is on the order of 1 mile. Assuming you have some idea where you are, and accurate maps of the area, you’ll do much better using landmarks and a compass. About the only real use I can imagine for celestial navigation would be if you were in a large desert or jungle without (m)any landmarks. That’s why they invented GPS. You can carry several GPS units and plenty of batteries in the space and
