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Re: Celestial Navigation in the Movies
From: Frank Petrie
Date: 2016 Dec 2, 17:21 -0800
From: Frank Petrie
Date: 2016 Dec 2, 17:21 -0800
Jackson, I came across your post from March, 2015. I too am interested in celestial navigation scenes in movies. Do you recall the name of the movie you described, where "John Wayne looks through the sextant, lowers it, and then reads latitude and longitude right off the instrument."