Real Navigation Links

[brandtryan]

To find the position of a ship or aircraft by celestial navigation, the navigator uses a sextant to take a 'sight' to measure the apparent height of the object above the horizon, and notes the time from a marine chronometer. The object's position is then looked up in the Nautical Almanac for that particular time and after allowance for refraction, instrument error and other errors, a position circle on the Earth's surface is calculated.

Navigation by Sextant:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/navigate/escapenav.html
online nautical almanac:
http://www.tecepe.com.br/scripts/AlmanacPagesISAPI.isa
Find your Longitude game:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/findgame.html

[vanjast]

Old stuff from SH3 days.. has been updated by others AFAIK.
You might find some things still usefull.

http://www.vanjast.com/NavMod/RealNav_ReadMe.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/NavMod/RealNav_ReadMe2.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/NavMod/RealNav_Sextant1024.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/NavMod/RealNavMod.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/NavMod/WorldMap.zip

:)

edt: Just found my SH4 stuff.. will post links shortly..

[Matador.es]

Nice, i will read more about it. Just googled for second hand sextand :wah: that is expensieve!

[Axeman3d]

Occasionally in the exterior view I will locate the north star so that I know which direction to look for a certain feature, but I'm damned sure I'm not buying a sextant and trying that on screen.

[vanjast]

Cannot remember what all this SH4 stuff was..

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/LongitudeMath.pdf

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/MoonSun39_45.pdf

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/navstarchart.pdf

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/SFAStarChartsAll.pdf

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/EquatorStarMap.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/NHemisphereStarMap.zip

http://www.vanjast.com/SH4NavMod/SHemisphereStarMap.zip

[Pisces]

Does SH5 also have a file called savegame_name.map, inwhich all mapmarkings, waypoints and such are stored, as it is in SH3 and 4? I know it's probably located in a different folder because Ubisoft uploads/downloads your savegames all the time. But it might help extending the "Stellarium solution" (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=135215) to SH5 too. I don't have SH5, I'm just contemplating the possibilities.

[ETsd4]

Celestial navigation in real, for beginners (avi-video 50min, 320MB, password: CarbonBased)
http://www.fileserve.com/file/EVfJ9kC