NavList:

Gary LaPook, you wrote: "I wholeheartedly recommend that Ocean Navigator article."

...which is why the best answer to the original question should be, "ask away... this is the place... all the experts in celestial navigation, in general, on the ocean, on land, in the air... are right here in the NavList community!" :)

Gary, you apparently wrote that very fine article for O.N. back in 2008. Is there anything that you would add or change? Given the context of a magazine article, you obviously had space limitations. And given the passage of sixteen years since then, attitudes have changed and available resources have changed significantly. What would you recommend for a light plane celestial navigator as a basic suite of tools as a "hobbyist"? What would you recommend for a long-distance airline pilot looking to experiment with celestial, for example, on a trans-Pacific flight? Are there special concerns that these potential navigators should worry about? Any issues unique to different classes of aircraft?

Frank Reed
PS: To anyone: While I'm addressing this to Gary (above), since he wrote that O.N. article that Martin Caminos referenced, please don't feel that the questions above are only for him. Any thoughts on the differences between celestial navigation on a modern Boeing or Airbus flight deck in 2024 versus under an astrodome in a Lockheed Connie back in 1954, for example? What works? What doesn't?