March 2, 2006 08:19
If you have a Palm there's some great, inexpensive tools for them. My favorite is Celestnav, which can store numerous sightings and combine them into fixes. It has a built in almanac and was very useful when I was learning. It was also good at working out the monthly celestial navigation problems in the back of Offshore Navigator magazine.
Another useful Palm tool was Planetarium which can give you a sky view of any planet or star, very helpful in locating objects to shoot with your sextant.
A Palm plus these tools can still be cheaper than that fancy $500 calculator.
Another useful Palm tool was Planetarium which can give you a sky view of any planet or star, very helpful in locating objects to shoot with your sextant.
A Palm plus these tools can still be cheaper than that fancy $500 calculator.