Celestial navigation – follow your star by Sam Watson, Terrington School

Since man's first awareness of the stars above him as objects beyond merely the decorative or mystical, he has used them to guild his path and to navigate to fixed points on the planet around him. The talk presents an overview of the main methods used, from both a historical and navigational standpoint, with discussion as to how modern technology has updated celestial navigation with man's placing of his own "stars" in the firmament - man-made satellites that now give pinpoint positional accuracy through GPS systems.

YPS Lecture

Joint lecture with the Royal Geographical Society and PLACE