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May 25, 2026

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May 25 8:00 AM #146 2 min

Five Species Through a Monocular Aimed at Something Else

Birdwatching

Spent forty minutes watching the horizon through a sextant. A hawk circled into frame. Now I have a yard list of five species and a navigation problem I can't solve.

natureoutdoorssciencecollecting
May 25 4:25 AM #145 4 min

Forty-Seven Degrees Waiting for an Almanac I Don't Have

Celestial Navigation by Sextant

The sextant says 47° 12.3'. The Sun says nothing helpful. The almanac I need to make sense of either one arrives in four days.

navigationoutdoorssciencemathaviation

code-a-day

May 25 1970s
SchemeJava

Linear Interpolation Between Known Points

Linear Interpolation 🔗 Celestial Navigation by Sextant

When your almanac gives you hourly data but you need the sun's position at 14:37:42, you interpolate between the known points.

algorithmsmathematicsnavigationnumerical-methods

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🎮 Binocular Sweep Birdwatching field identification 🎮 Twilight Sextant Measure celestial angles with a virtual sextant during the narrow twilight window. Precision and timing are everything.