Seeing stars, again: Naval Academy reinstates celestial navigation

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http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/naval_academy/ph-ac-cn-celestial-navigation-1014-20151009-story.html

By Tim Prudente
capitalgazette.com
October 12, 2015

The same techniques guided ancient Polynesians in the open Pacific and led 
Sir Ernest Shackleton to remote Antarctica, then oriented astronauts when 
the Apollo 12 was disabled by lightning, the techniques of celestial 
navigation.

A glimmer of the old lore has returned to the Naval Academy.

Officials reinstated brief lessons in celestial navigation this year, 
nearly two decades after the full class was determined outdated and cut 
from the curriculum.

That decision, in the late 1990s, made national news and caused a stir 
among the old guard of navigators.

Maritime nostalgia, however, isn't behind the return.

Rather, it's the escalating threat of cyber attacks that has led the Navy 
to dust off its tools to measure the angles of stars.

After all, you can't hack a sextant.

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