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Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
From: Arthur Pearson
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 10:59 -0500
From: Arthur Pearson
Date: 2002 Dec 14, 10:59 -0500
And to view the hardware options for Palm Pilots, and a host of additional software that will run on them and is available virtually for free, try: www.palm.com www.palmgear.com -----Original Message----- From: Navigation Mailing List [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM] On Behalf Of Gennaro Sammarco Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:57 AM To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction www.mobilegeographics.com/celestnav/ it's a very handy program, called 'celestnav' very easy and handy, it works with palm os. You can try their demo fro free 30 days and after you must register.I have their version 2.1, it has many features useful for navigation altoghether with specific celestial navigation pages, allowing you to obtain lops very fast and easily. The only problem might be the size of characters and pages, so small and hard to see in poor light, but it's an overall quite unexpensive alternative to other calculator. Other possibilities are special calculators available trough the Celestaire and Starpath website,but I don't have any experience on them. A very good software, and free, is available on the page of Andree Ruiz, toghether with other useful informations. Fair winds Gennaro Sammarco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Eno"To: Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction > Hello Jared, > > Ok, you got my attention. Tell me more. Is this the same as a "Palm Pilot"? > I take it that you can load some kind of program into this? Do you know of > a website where I can have look at one of these? > > Now I am salivating ;-) > > Robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jared Sherman > To: > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:23 PM > Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction > > > > Robert- > > I love computers best from a distance, I've spent too much time making > them work for myself and others. > > > > But if you like the Celesticomp computer, you really owe it to yourself to > look at the Palm. Even the cheapest $100 Palm now has 20? 100? times the > brains and memory of the Celesticomp. Anything the Celesticomp can do, the > Palm can do--but it can do a WHOLE lot more. Like give you a free skymap, > that shows stars and planets according to time and position. And be very > effective for email if you find a phone line. Or keeping an inventory of all > the spares on board, and the contact numbers for the makers. > > > > All that and it easily will run for a month or two on two AAA cells, which > can be rechargable or a LiOn battery and a 12V ships power adapter for > little more. > > > > You need to spend a half hour with someone who HAS a Palm, let them show > you what it can do, and the half hour becomes an afternoon or an evening and > then you start shopping for one. > > > > And unlike "computers", Palms tend to be rock stable. Fits in your pocket, > won't mess on the rug, waterproof cases and neck straps all readily > available. 1/3 to 1/5th the price of the Celesticomps, same price if you buy > a real high end Palm, and boy can any of them make the Celesticomp look like > a fossil. (A nice fossil, but a fossil.) > >