Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article .com,
Joe wrote:

Very good Jon,


Now follow orions belt in a curved line SE to Sirius you hit a nearly
equalateral triangle of Stars.


This is part of what constellation?


How many stars in this triangle are listed in the Nautical Almanac?

Name them..


I'd have to look it up.

I'm in the look up phase too. When doing astro, my routine was (because
I don't do it anymore) to shoot the five or six first stars I saw at
twilight then whip out the star globe and figure out which they were
prior to running the calcs (marc St. Hilaire method)using HO 229 or 249.
That is how I was taught (pre calculator).

This constellation stuff is not navigation, it's astrology or astronomy
or something.


Of course my favourite fix was equal altitudes at lunch. Anyone know
what that is and why navigators like it?

Gaz