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When I learnt in the 1980s it was certainly called AstroNav in the UK.
Still widely used term even though perhaps a bit odd to exclude moon
and planets!

Bill

On 5 July 2016 at 21:18, Bob Goethe  wrote:
>>>Why the name?  Why not the more conventional CelNav?<<
>
> Indeed...and in the context of the videos proper, they seem to refer to the
> process as "celestial navigation".
>
> "Astro Nav" seems to be more British.  Probably there is somebody at
> Vanderbilt, with responsibility for funding this course, who is taken with
> the idea of wearing an ascot.  Probably they took elocution lessons from
> sombody in Cambridge, in the hopes that it would add 10 points to their IQ.
>
> Bob
>
> 



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