How to Use celestial navigation in a Sentence

celestial navigation

noun

• There are even birds and seals that use celestial navigation, but in the insect world, this finding is a first.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2013
• This feat of celestial navigation could be one more step toward Carl Sagan’s dream of journeying across the cosmos on reflective sails propelled by beams of light.
  — Amy Thompson, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• To learn more about the night sky, book a stargazing session with Vavau where guests take a sunset cruise to a motu (island) and learn about how ancient Polynesians used celestial navigation.
  — Sarah Sekula, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2021
• The post represents the Māori’s connection to Antarctica, the use of celestial navigation and the spirit of exploration.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 June 2021
• The yachters race for 645 miles, using celestial navigation only (in other words, the stars instead of a traditional map).
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2019
• On the ground, the military is starting to retrain pilots, ship captains, and ground troops in fail-safe forms of navigation that don’t rely on GPS—like celestial navigation.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• This kind of celestial navigation would have made Nabta Playa's stone circle a powerful symbol to the ancient nomadic people.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2020
• Today, French Polynesia is seeing a resurgence of interest in celestial navigation, sparked by the relaunch of races like the solo-sailing Golden Globe.
  — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2022
• The British Columbia native became the eighth person in the world (and first in North America) to circumnavigate the globe alone using only celestial navigation.
  — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2020
• Traditional celestial navigation requires measuring the angle of a star or planet in the sky.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2021
• The head looks upward into the sky to symbolize celestial navigation, and the post celebrates past explorers who had ventured to the arrowroot-colored continent.
  — New York Times, 2 July 2021
• The sextant sailors used in the 18th century for celestial navigation had a telescopic attachment (which gave Popeye the Sailor his characteristic squint).
  — Austin Grossman, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2019
• The precise time is vital for celestial navigation: an uncertainty of 30 seconds means a distance error of ten kilometers.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2021
• This halau, built through a joint effort between community activists, the county, and the club, is a space where the two men and other community members hold classes for local kids on crafting, oral history, celestial navigation, and ecology.
  — Soleil Ho, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
• The English missionaries, the French authorities, the Tahitians who adopted foreign ways that had been framed as superior—all had conspired to endanger traditions from tattooing to cooking to celestial navigation.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
• As Polynesia was colonized and modernized, the secrets of celestial navigation were nearly forgotten.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 May 2021
• While visitors may not enter, an exterior path holds intriguing interpretive signs on Kauai history, Polynesian celestial navigation (the temple platform also holds a star map) and modern stewards of the complex.
  — Jeanne Cooper, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2018
• Topics range from mastering celestial navigation to improvising fishing line from thread to getting water from a barrel cactus (only for emergencies, since cactus water can induce diarrhea).
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 23 May 2018
• Astronomers, whose research supported celestial navigation—a matter of great economic and military importance—were better positioned than most American scientists to advance their own and their nation’s prestige.
  — Evan Hepler-Smith, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2017
• Since antiquity navigators had been able to find their latitude fairly easily using celestial navigation.
  — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
• Future ballistic missiles will also include advanced celestial navigation.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024