There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the ...

To navigate the ocean, a person plots sextant measurements on charts and tables and uses a nautical almanac to apply the data.

And so service men and women are being taught the absolute basics, going back to using the planets and stars and a sextant to find direction through a long series of mathematical calculations.

NASA is conducting a series of experiments onboard the International Space Station to investigate if a sextant could be used on future deep-space missions.

US Navy recruits to learn how to navigate using the stars as America grows increasingly worried about possible hacking of computer navigation systems ...

Academy takes sextant out of course ‘Celestial navigation’ will be deleted from training next year; Replaced by computer; Move pleases Mids; some say ‘cel-nav’ is ‘silliness’ ...

NASA's SEXTANT experiment collects data from dozens of our galaxy's pulsars to accurately pinpoint its position anywhere in the solar system.

Navigation by Sextant There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, referring to tables ...