Nautical almanac

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What Wikipedia says

A nautical almanac is a publication describing the positions of a selection of celestial bodies for the purpose of enabling navigators to use celestial navigation to determine the position of their ship while at sea.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Nautical almanac”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: U.S. Naval Observatory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.