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by t0mas88 67 days ago
> The Angle Computer is one piece of the Astro Compass, a system that locked onto a star and produced a highly accurate heading (i.e., compass direction), accurate to a tenth of a degree.

I think it provides ground track information not just heading? Which is far more valuable for aircraft navigation, because the main issue is unpredictable wind drift.

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No, it did not provide ground track. You could manually produce a ground track using the line of position technique described in the article.