iMariner Celestial Navigation vs EZ Lunars Usage & Stats

iMariner Celestial Navigation is a complete toolbox : sight, fix, meridian, starfinder, solar compass Also embedded : nautical almanac (sun, moon, planets, starts) and astronomical computation (no more need for HO-249/HO-229 tables) - displays almanac informations : Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and 92 brightest stars. At this step, you can use these almanac data with HO.249 tables, if you want to reduce manually. - reduces a sight : getting your observed altitude and the precise time, it calculate Intercept and Azimut. You don't need any calculation ! Simply report Intercept and Azimut to your navigational chart. - You can save your observations by passages and send them by email in CSV format - take a fix : with two sights, iMariner is able to calculate your position (latitude/longitude) - meridian passage : iMariner helps you to take observations mandatory to know your position (latitude/longitude) - sight preparation : iMariner proposes you the best objects, here position (azimut and elevation), and the approximate time of the day the observation can take (nautical_twilight or nautical dawn). iMariner is a standalone application. It doesn't require internet connection. It is light and calculations are optimized to save energy on your boat. Includes a solar compass (and moon compass too). REFERENCES : iMariner has been inspirated by astronomical works of the following people. Brightest Stars Catalog Extraction of 92 stars >= 2.5 Mag from the vizier catalog, completed with some stars and star names. V/53A Catalogue of the Brightest Stars (Ochsenbein+ 1988) This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France vizier.u-strasbg.fr ============================= Le catalogue des etoiles les plus brillantes Catalogue of the brightest stars Ochsenbein F., Halbwachs J.L. =1987BICDS..32...83O Ochsenbein F., Acker A., Legrand E., Poncelet J.M., Thuet-Fleck E. ============================= AlgorithmsFrom the reference book Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus Planets : VSOP87D theoryTables extracted from ftp://ftp.imcce.fr/pub/ephem/planets/vsop87/ and adapted to Objective-C. Bretagnon P., Francou G., : 1988, Astron. Astrophys., 202, 309. Pierre Bretagnon, Gerard Francou Bureau des Longitudes 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France Moon : ELP2000 theory The lunar ephemeris ELP2000 M. Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront Service de Mecanique Celeste du Bureau des Longitudes 77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France Sky Maps Free maps from the IAU site : http://www.iau.org/public/constellations/ DeltaT value maia.usno.navy.mil

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EZ Lunars

Lunars are easy when you have the pre-computed lunar distance tables! Learn to do lunars as they were done when the pre-computed lunar distances were published in the Nautical Almanac over 100 years ago (last published in 1906). The ezLunarsOne lunar distance tables contain the lunar distances of up to 6 navigational bodies each day at 3-hour intervals. Each distance also has a proportional logarithm value to help interpolate the cleared distance to a time between the 3-hour values. A proportional logarithm table, moon augmented semidiameter, and second differences table are also included. Everything you need to perform lunars with a pencil and paper just like the ancient navigators! Most users, however, will let the app do all of the work. ezLunarsOne includes functions to guide you through the process of planning your lunar, making the observations and using the tables to compute Greenwich time. When your lunar is cleared, the solution can be output to a lunar clearing form just like you would do by hand. When you are ready to do lunars by hand, the lunar distance tables and blank clearing forms can be sent to a printer or PDF file for use outside the app. Since the lunar solution also requires data from the Nautical Almanac, the full Nautical Almanac from ezAlmanacOne is provided in the app. ezLunarsOne performs all astronomical calculations using the NOVAS 3.1 software from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) and a JPL ephemeris that covers the years 1960 through 2059. Since all calculations are performed in the software, ezLunarsOne is fully functional with no dependency on a data connection from your device.