Navigation

With all of today's fancy navigation techneques I thought it would be fun to remember how it all started, with the stars. I found these images explaining the study of astonomy and providing the basics for navigation. Thinking about it like this makes it feel impossible to find your way anywhere, thank god for GPS.

 For those that don't know or have forgotten the image above is of a sextant. It was used by sailors to plot their position by using the sun and the horizon line.

Coming full circle here is a nautical chart of Gloucester (the oldest seaport in America), Mass. This chart is more for ocean depths than it is used for navigation but could still be used that way.