The authors give a personal account of the use of astro navigation during the years before GPS became the primary aid for oceanic navigation. The paper also contains an account of the support provided by The Nautical Almanac (NA) together with its associated tables and computer programs which ease the tedium of sight reduction while leaving the satisfaction to be found in successful astro observations at sea.An early version of Section 2 of this paper formed part of a presentation made at the Symposium After Longitude – Modern Navigation in Context which took place at the UK National Maritime Museum from 22–23 March 2012.
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