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13 laboratories

Celestial Navigation

Type your town — Burdwan, Kolkata, Katihar, anywhere — pick a time in GMT or LMT, and your sky opens: constellations in colour, the Sun, the Moon, the planets, and the horizons that frame them. Then the sextant, the corrections, the PZX triangle, and star sights worked to a fix.

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Three days, none of them the same length

Solar, apparent and mean solar day — ES-02, ES-03

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The full laboratories add the 57 navigational stars, Polaris, the celestial sphere and the PZX triangle.

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Every laboratory in Celestial Navigation

Real identifiers, as they appear inside the platform.

LabTitle
ES-01Rotating Earth and coordinate systems
ES-06Celestial sphere and coordinate frames
ES-02Solar, apparent and mean solar day
ES-03Sidereal day and sidereal time
ES-04Lunar day, retardation, tides — the Earth–Moon–Sun machine
ES-08PZX — the navigation triangle made physical
OP-09Sextant optics and index error
OP-10The altitude-correction laboratory
ES-05The wandering stars — planets and the almanac
ES-07The fifty-seven — navigational stars, SHA, and Polaris
OP-15Star sights to a fix — the harvest
OP-12Compass error — azimuth and amplitude
OP-13The sums — latitude and longitude, step by step

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