Welcome to the NavList Message Boards.

NavList:

A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding

Compose Your Message

Message:αβγ
Message:abc
Add Images & Files
    Name or NavList Code:
    Email:
       
    Reply
    Celestial Tools V4.7.1 released
    From: Stan K
    Date: 2015 Jan 4, 20:46 -0500
    Attached is the version of Celestial Tools V4.7.1 that was released to the United States Power Squadrons web site a couple of days ago.  In the time since the posting of the pre-release version, one more bug was found and exterminated.

    Repeating what was said in the pre-release message:

    As some email programs do not accept executables, zipped or otherwise, when you unzip the attachment you will find the name of the program to be CelestialTools471.exx.  Change the exx to exe, then just run the executable.  No "installation" is required.  However, fonts must be set for 96 dpi (called 100%, normal, standard, etc., depending on you particular version of Windows).

    V4.7.1 is a maintenance release, just exterminating some bugs.  V4.7.0, however, added a feature that some might find interesting.

    When doing a sight reduction on the Sun, previous versions gave an "accurate" value for the hourly GHA of the Sun (as most similar programs do), which, much of the time, was as much as 0.2' in disagreement with daily pages of the printed Nautical Almanac.  This is because, as explained in paragraph 24 on page 261 of the Almanac, "...the Sun's GHA...is deliberately adjusted by up to 0.15' to reduce the error due to ignoring the v-correction."  In V4.7.1 there is the new option to use the hourly values of the GHA of the Sun as presented on the daily pages of the Almanac.  Using this option, the values will match the daily pages in about 99% of the 8760 possible hours (8784 in a leap year).  This 1% discrepancy is serendipitous in that it is consistent with the mandate that Celestial Tools not be "perfect" - it should help the students, not do the work for them.  Using the Nautical Almanac value is now the default in the Sight Reduction tool.  In the Noon Sight tool, the Nautical Almanac value is now what is used in calculating the time of LAN.

    Please delete any copies of the pre-release version you might have.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

    Stan

    File: 129921.celestialtools471.zip
       
    Reply
    Browse Files

    Drop Files

    NavList

    What is NavList?

    Get a NavList ID Code

    Name:
    (please, no nicknames or handles)
    Email:
    Do you want to receive all group messages by email?
    Yes No

    A NavList ID Code guarantees your identity in NavList posts and allows faster posting of messages.

    Retrieve a NavList ID Code

    Enter the email address associated with your NavList messages. Your NavList code will be emailed to you immediately.
    Email:

    Email Settings

    NavList ID Code:

    Custom Index

    Subject:
    Author:
    Start date: (yyyymm dd)
    End date: (yyyymm dd)

    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site
    Visit this site