Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The sextant measures the angular distance between two points. A sextant and celestial navigation require a spherical earth and parallel rays of light to find a position on the surface of the earth. In this video we go through the basic geometry of the sextant and how we convert an angle to a position.

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