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Celestial Navigation: A Practical Guide to Knowing Where You Are by David Berson Seahorse Publishing This short book — only 133 pages — delivers just enough information for the reasonably competent coastal navigator to become a reasonably competent celestial navigator. Berson’s folksy writing style, which readers of these pages have come to appreciate over the past two decades from his regular Nav Problem and from his seminars with the Ocean Navigator School of Seamanship, renders the material not only understandable but enjoyable as well. In fact, I recently read the book from cover to cover on a flight, pausing only…