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Re: IMac and sight reduction.
From: Stan K
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 10:36 -0500
From: Stan K
Date: 2017 Jan 3, 10:36 -0500
Ron Jones' spreadsheet, the latest version of which was just released to NavList yesterday, is a good choice. My own Celestial Tools (www.celestialtools.webs.com) works on a Mac under Wine, as I suspect Rodger Farley's Teacup Navigation (http://www.teacupnavigation.net/CN.html) will. These three programs are free, but may be much more than you are looking for.
Stan
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From: Bill Lionheart <NoReply_Lionheart@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 3, 2017 8:09 am
Subject: [NavList] Re: IMac and sight reduction.
From: Bill Lionheart <NoReply_Lionheart@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 3, 2017 8:09 am
Subject: [NavList] Re: IMac and sight reduction.
Some quick thoughts 1) http://www.celnav.de/ Hemming Umland implemented some nice javascript code for ephemeris and sight reduction - save the web page and run it in any browser. Worked fine on my MacBook Pro 2) Any of the various spreadsheet implementations - quite likely work in OpenOffice Libre Office if you dont have Microsoft eg http://www.navigation-spreadsheets.com/ 3) CelNav https://github.com/ms8r/celnav is a python program using the python ephemeris library (you can use this directly it is very easy to use with a minimal level of python programming). It is part of the Navigatrix distribution - custom Linux for cruisers. I dont remember trying it when I had a mac but I certainly ran other python code. 4) OpenCPN runs fine on a Mac, does the Celestial Navigation plug in work on a Mac though? I cant remember! Bill On 3 January 2017 at 09:48, Paul Jackson wrote: > Hi to the good folk at NavList, > > are any NavList members able > to point me in the right direction to find an App or programme to basic > sight reduction that will function on an iMac? > > -- Professor of Applied Mathematics http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/bl
