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Why this site
Since the use of the ship's positioning system by GPSa saying has emerged that astronomical science has ended its eraand that the Sextant should be hidden inside museums.
To respond to this statement, we summarize the following:
First Celestial Navigation is not limited to determining the position of the shipbut it goes beyond that limited mission to the following important topics
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Compass error setting
- Definition of different time measurement systems and the relationship between them.
- Knowledge of the foundations of the system of rising and setting celestial bodies.
- Knowledge of the foundations of the annual movement of the sun and its effect on the phenomenon of night and day
- Transforming the legal foundations of the times of the call to prayer for the five daily prayers into applied equations
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