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Originally Posted by Jaeger
or the conditions for beeing able to press the button must be more restricitve: best weather conditions are needed. perhaps tdw can change this?
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You certainly need visibility to get out to the horizon. And you also need a sky that's clear enough to see three navigational stars. The sky doesn't need to be absolutely clear. But scattered cloud would certainly give more opportunity for fixing than a broken ceiling. Bear in mind also that the sun and moon are often available during the day for a quick two line fix. Perhaps it would be enough to have a "get astro fix" button that's visible both when the weather conditions are good enough, not necessarily perfect though, and from between morning nautical twilight and evening nautical twilight. (about an hour before sunrise to an hour after sunrise). The button should also gray out and not appear again until the fix is on the chart depicting your ship's position at the time you pressed the button.