New 3M said:
If you bothered to look anywhere on the internet, including what appears to be your favorite sites, Google and Wikipedia, you would see that the Naval Academy does indeed teach Celestial. In 1998, they didn’t stop teaching celestial, but stopped teaching the use of SEXTANT’s. They still teach celestial.
Sean said Page 3:
The art of navigation requires more than a modicum of intelligence. At any time GPS satellites can be turned off, that is why Celestial navigation is still practaced up in the wheelhouse. Have you ever heard of someone with “average” intellagence being able to do Celestial computations without the aid of a computer program?
Well if ‘Quarter Master types’/ ‘midship man types’ in the Navy do that, you must question yourself, possibl Sean, and not me if it is such a really highly skilled activity, that the Navy would delegate the learning of it to people who are not exactly ‘Officers’.