Sextant
For training or improving your skills with a sextant.
Sextant
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Creation date: 2015-04-27
Price: 1.99
Email: na*****@gmail.com
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
- view network connections
- full network access
- read Google service configuration
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App summary
Celestial navigation - Astronavigation
For training or improving your skills with a marine sextant, an aircraft octant (bubble), an artificial horizon, or a theodolite.
- Real time calculation of the instrumental altitude Hs for comparison of your shots.
- Useful for index error determination.
- For Sun, Moon, and navigational stars and planets.
- Location on map of your position by GPS or manually. ("Location" App permission must be allowed. Switch on you GPS, and then automatic location detection is possible)
- Map: zoom, satellite, terrain and road map.
- KEEP_SCREEN_ON
- Show/hide time
- Day/night only data screen mode
- Show azimuth: plots Zn of the star from the observer's position.
User reviews
Excellent. Most enjoyable to use.
by 
A Google user, 2016-11-21
A Google user, 2016-11-21Similar apps
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