Been layed up for a few day with a bum gut, I got to thinking. Anyone know how navigate with the stars and sun? I thought it'd be pretty cool to learn how to do this, but most everything I've googled has been pretty in-depth geek-speak that my hillbilly brain can't understand.

I know it isn't easy because if it was, we'd never have come up with a GPS. But civy GPS's can be spoofed, and compasses only tell direction.

Anyone got any ideas or other methods of determining specific Lat/Lon W/O maps or gps's? Anything you can recommend as a celestial navigation primer?

I would guess that a person wouldn't have the sextants or other equipment available all the time, but I still think it'd be cool to learn.

DLR