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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2005
Mikhail Belenkii, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald G. Bruns, San Diego, CA (US);
Vincent a Rye, Oceanside, CA (US);
Timothy Brinkley, La Jolla, CA (US);
Mikhail Belenkii, San Diego, CA (US);
Donald G. Bruns, San Diego, CA (US);
Vincent A Rye, Oceanside, CA (US);
Timothy Brinkley, La Jolla, CA (US);
Trex Enterprises Corp., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
An automatic celestial navigation system for navigating both night and day by observation of K-band or H-band infrared light from multiple stars. A preferred embodiment uses three telescopes with each of the three telescopes rigidly mounted with respect to each other and rigidly mounted on a movable platform such as a ship or airplane with each telescope being directed at a substantially different portion of sky. Telescope optics focuses, onto the pixel array of a sensor, H-band or K-band light from stars in the field of view of each telescope. The system also includes an inclinometer, an accurate timing device and a computer processor having access to cataloged infrared star charts.