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Celestial Navigation Software released
From: Olivier Le Diouris
Date: 2004 Mar 8, 08:24 -0800
From: Olivier Le Diouris
Date: 2004 Mar 8, 08:24 -0800
Hi List, I'm new to this Navigation-L, and I joined it on the advice of Arthur Pearson, who has a very interesting web site about Lunar Distances. I have developed and implemented a bunch of algorithms for Celestial Navigation, in Java (that runs virtually on any platform), you can take a look at http://celestjava.sourceforge.net, it is free and open source, plus I wen through the validation smoke test this week-end, ... it seems to work fine! It gives you the possibility to compute Celestial Data in real time, to get the intercept after providing UT Time, Assumed Position, and Instrument Altitude. Ephemerides are computed on the fly. Also, it gives you a possibility to edit and/or print the ephemerides for one day, one month, one year,... whatever. Please let me know if you have any comment and/or idea to improve it, Thank you, Olivier http://olivier.lediouris.net
