Navigational Algorithms: AstroNavigation is a specialized toolkit for celestial and classical navigation. It helps mariners, aviators, explorers, and educators compute and visualize positions using observations of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, and it serves as a reliable, offline-capable complement or backup to GNSS-based methods.
Key capabilities:
- Celestial sight planning and reduction: predict altitude/azimuth, apply common corrections (e.g., dip and atmospheric refraction), and compute intercepts and lines of position from sextant sights.
- Almanac and ephemeris utilities with support for standard time scales and coordinate transformations used in astro-navigation.
- Star identification and “best body” suggestions tailored to time, date, and approximate location.
- Fix determination workflows: two- and three-body fixes, running fixes, and options for combining multiple observations with basic uncertainty estimates.
- Core piloting tools: great-circle and rhumb-line bearings/distances, course-to-steer, dead reckoning updates, and set-and-drift calculations.
- Visualization of lines of position, circles of equal altitude, tracks, and fixes on simple charts for clear, step-by-step interpretation.
- Designed for repeatable, offline use, making it suitable for training, simulation, and field operations.
By combining robust navigational methods with approachable workflows, Navigational Algorithms: AstroNavigation strengthens resilience at sea and in the air, reinforces fundamentals for learners, and provides a practical, trustworthy way to verify or replace satellite navigation when needed.
Navigational Algorithms AstroNavigation is developed by Navigational Algorithms. The most popular version of this product among our users is 20.1. The name of the program executable file is AstroNavigation.exe.
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