
NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Andrés Ruiz
Date: 2010 Jul 16, 12:10 +0200
The new release of Navigational Algorithms
free software includes Chart Work:
Is free software for doing traditional paper chart
work on an ECS (Electronic Chart System) like plotting bearings, ranges,
horizontal angles, celestial LoPs and GC routes. See:
- Celestial Navigation
http://opencpn.org/node/102
- Coastal Navigation http://opencpn.org/node/101
You can use the generated GPX file as input to:
·
OpenCPN (free ECS) with nautical
charts : CMAP or NOAA RCN/ECN S57 (free for
·
Google Earth
Also
You can plot celestial circles of position (some
screenshots are attached):
- With CelestialFix.exe
using the World Vector Shoreline (WVS)
·
With OpenCPN by a GPX
file generated with Chart Work.exe or CelestialFix.exe (this last option
includes the running fix)
·
With Google Earth
importing the GPX file.
Regards,
--
Andrés Ruiz
Navigational Algorithms
https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/