Celestial Navigator 4+

Name: Celestial Navigator
Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Author: Omar reis

Omar reis

Designed for iPad

- 2.0 • 3 Ratings

- Free

Description

Celestial navigation application with
- perpetual almanac
- star finder chart, with animation
- calculation of lines of position ( intercept/delta )
- celestial object data
- meridian passage calculation
- running fix support
- astronomical position calculations, with two or more star observations
- Hipparchus 150 star catalog

Program can be set to use device's sensors (gyro, compass)
to position the star finder chart in real time.
Capture celestial object approximate altitude.

Note that you still need a marine sextant to do celestial navigation,
but the phone sensors may be used for training.

Software for iPhone and iPad, with the same features.
e-book with manual and celestial navigation tutorial.

Nov 1, 2022

Version 3.6

- Dark mode, better suited for dusk time use
- Moved the main menu to the top
- Fixed saving of Lines of Position to file

2.0 out of 5

3 Ratings

Interesting but needs work.

Not intuitive, star map jumps when trying to take sight, star names don’t register correctly upon taking sight.

Mario

I have using to practice celestial navigation problems ,its work very good Also using the artificial horizon in my back yard I can see the LOP in seconds and it help me to refine my skill with the sextant
I would like to use GMT hrs instead of Local Time in the calculations In the PC you have the option but not in the App
I like the Star finding

Worked great till IOS9

The app was great and worked beautifully till IOS9. So far it just quits right away as soon as the app is started. I hope it is fixed soon with an update.

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