NavList:

Some of the members of our list, ask me about an English version of my Sight Reduction program. Now I have developed a new and friendly interface: CelestialFix.exe. Other programs are in Spanish, but for a seaman is very easy to imagine how they works.

Nautical Almanac

• Ephemerides
• Correction of sextant altitude
• Marcq Saint-Hilaire LoP
• Noon Sight
• Ex-meridian Sight
• Latitude by Polaris
• Lunar distances
• Position by 2 CoP
• Visible Sky

CelestialFix

• n LOPs Fix
• Celestial Navigation
• Position from n sextant altitude observations
• Running Fix
• LOPs and confidence ellipse
• Compact Data - USNO Nautical Almanac algorithm
• Plot of Circles of equal Altitude
• Position by 2 CoP. Van Allen algorithm

Navigation.  Main program (launcher)

 Position by n Circles of equal Altitude

• On the Overdetermined Celestial Fix, Metcalf and Metcalf. NAVIGATION, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring 1991, pp 79-89.
• Advancing Celestial Circles of Position
• An Extension to the Overdetermined Celestial Fix, Metcalf
• Piloting with Celestial Algorithms

Sailings

• Sailing calculations:
• Rhumb Line
• Great circle
• Middle-Latitude

Other programs  

Meridional parts

Magnetic Declination

Degree conversions

Deviation

First You must read the Readme link, and then download the files:

• Programs (4.2 MB)
• dll and ocx (1.2 MB)
• runtime (4.8 MB)

Any comments?

All software is at:

http://www.geocities.com/andresruizgonzalez/  in [downloads] section

Andrés.