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  2. Celestial Navigations - Wikipedia

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    Celestial Navigations was an American music and story-telling group, connected to the Church of Scientology, with members Geoffrey Lewis, Geoff Levin, David Campbell, Eric Zimmerman, Bettie Ross, and Chris Many. [1] [2] [3] Their performances consisted of Lewis telling a story along with electronic music to enhance the story.

  3. Celestial navigation - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...

  4. List of stars for navigation - Wikipedia

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    Fifty-seven navigational stars and additionally the star Polaris are given a special status in the field of celestial navigation. Of the approximately six thousand stars visible to the naked eye under optimal conditions, these selected stars are among the brightest and span thirty-eight constellations of the celestial sphere from the ...

  5. Flying Horse of Gansu - Wikipedia

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    Guo was struck by the beauty of the horse and selected it for national and international exhibition. [4] The horse in the bronze is a breed brought back from Fergana by a punitive expedition sent by Emperor Han Wudi in 104 BCE. These "celestial horses" were highly prized as marks of status. [5]

  6. Nautical almanac - Wikipedia

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    Two sample pages of the 2002 Nautical Almanac published by the U.S. Naval Observatory. A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea.

  7. List of horses in mythology and folklore - Wikipedia

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    Árvakr and Alsviðr, horses that pull Sól's chariot [1] Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse [2] Falhófnir, a horse of the gods [3] Glað, a horse of the gods [4] Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the ...

  8. Horses in Chinese mythology - Wikipedia

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    These horses of Central Asia were legendary for their size and prowess. Historically, the flying, blood-sweating, dragon-boned, celestial horses are connected with the Han dynasty and the emperor Han Wudi, and notably celebrated in the poetry of the Tang dynasty by the poet Li Bo (Beckwith, 112 and Schafer, 59-60).

  9. History of navigation - Wikipedia

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    Written records of navigation using stars, or celestial navigation, go back to Homer's Odyssey where Calypso tells Odysseus to keep the Bear (Ursa Major) on his left hand side and at the same time to observe the position of the Pleiades, the late-setting Boötes and the Orion as he sailed eastward from her island Ogygia traversing the Ocean. [5]