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Old 07-16-14, 04:23 AM   #202
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So - Celestial nav is something I've always wanted to learn, so when I found out about this method of using it in-game I was pretty happy. I've no idea how long it will take me to get competent at the maths and so far I'm only using it in the Pacific, but here's something that occurred to me. I have to input the GMT time and date into stellarium via Python, and I'm taking it from the tutorial that Pacific boats run on pearl time, i.e. Z-10, but when I move to the Atlantic or the Med, what's my time zone there? I have a map of time zones, does SH4 adhere to it? Someone mentioned saving a game at local noon and comparing a sun sight from Stellarium, which I'll probably do as soon as I know how but I wondered if anyone could save me exercising my mind by answering the question off the top of their heads?

P.S. - I had to use 2008 versions of Python and Stellarium to get them all to work together with the script in the download. I mention this just in case anyone has given up on this because of issues with the current versions. A couple of folks seem to have - Also it shows I read the thread before asking the question
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