About Celestial Navigator
Celestial Navigator is a must have app for mariners and any other person interested in celestial navigation. It features a rise set and merpass calculator, a line of position and compass error including gyro calculator ,...
Celestial Navigator is a must have app for mariners and any other person interested in celestial navigation.
It features a rise set and merpass calculator, a line of position and compass error including gyro calculator , a celestial fix calculator (with auto run up and dead reckoning),an almanac of sun,moon,planets and 58 navigational stars.It supports the three most widely used navigational methods for calculation of lines of position i.e. intercept,long by chronometer and latitude by meridian altitude.
It also features a true wind calculator (giving wind speed and direction,dew point and relative humidity),an eta calculator (multiple results are shown at a time depending upon the user settings),a sailing calculator featuring great circle and Mercator sailing calculators along with intermediate point calculator.
It also displays the device's position(lat,long,speed,cog) from the GPS and the compass heading.
The accuracy of the results displayed has been thoroughly tested with the US navy website, the nautical almanac of 2013.The results are with in 10-15 seconds which is accurate enough for sea.
Please read the help carefully.
The app contains can export the almanac data and celestial observations data to the external SD card.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Celestial Navigator since it was posted on our website on 2016-11-05 23:00:11.
The latest version is 4.7.1 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:29:20. See below the changes in each version.
Celestial Navigator version 4.7.1
Updated At: 2023-05-21
Celestial Navigator version 4.6.1
Updated At: 2021-07-19
Changes: Thank you for supporting celestial navigator. In this release the followings have been taken care of:
1. Improved UI
2. Fixed error in moon phase
3. Formatting issues in some sections.
Celestial Navigator version 4.6
Updated At: 2020-10-06
Changes: Thank you for supporting Celestial Navigator. In this release the followings have been taken care of:
1.Fixed error in celestial fix section. The attached screenshot is of the comparison between the sight as calculated in almanac of 1992 and that of the app. Difference is less that 1miles.
2. General enhancements and improvements.
Celestial Navigator version 4.5
Updated At: 2020-04-26
Changes: Thank ypu for supporting celestial navigator. In this release the followings have been taken care of-
1. Fixed errors in sailings section.
2. Added list of flags .
3. Accuracy checked with latest almanac.
4. Fixed some issues in star finder section.
Celestial Navigator version 4.4.2
Updated At: 2019-09-13
Changes: Thank you for supporting celestial navigator. In this release wind chill factor calculations and discomfort factor calculations have been added.
Celestial Navigator version 4.4.1
Updated At: 2019-08-12
Changes: 1. Added default speed option in ETA Calc.
2. Support for latest android version.
3. Reduced size and performance optimisations.
Celestial Navigator version 4.4
Updated At: 2019-07-02
Changes: Fixed reported issues in Celestial Fix and Daily pages.
Thanks for supporting Celestial Navigator.
Celestial Navigator version 3.3
Updated At: 2017-08-09
Changes: Compatibility issues with Android Nougat fixed.
Celestial Navigator version 3.2
Updated At: 2016-09-26
Changes: Fixed Crashes due to Permissions.
Disclaimer
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