RealNav navigation..

Georg_Unterberg · 05-18-07, 09:08 PM

vanjast,

got your sun almanac and its a pretty good table

calculating longitude by sunrise/sunset should be no problem now. BTW have you noticed that ship chronometer (in lower right corner) does not show GMT? Weird thing. It seems to show local time (and local time seems to be something else). Noticed that because all star calculations were wrong when I used missions in western atlantic (far off greenwich meridian).

As for triangulation, I use a german freeware tool called "Nautic Tools" to make the calculations. It's simply too much workload to do it with pen, paper & book all the time.

The "nautic tools 1.20" from Markus Eisenbart is a mighty fine program (but in german)

http://www.nautictools.de/

I also need help with removing the "tailfin" course marker of my own position. I don't know how to remove it. It was great for testing, but it needs to be removed for real navigation. do you know how??

05-18-07, 09:08 PM	#6
Georg_Unterberg Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 122 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	vanjast, got your sun almanac and its a pretty good table calculating longitude by sunrise/sunset should be no problem now. BTW have you noticed that ship chronometer (in lower right corner) does not show GMT? Weird thing. It seems to show local time (and local time seems to be something else). Noticed that because all star calculations were wrong when I used missions in western atlantic (far off greenwich meridian). As for triangulation, I use a german freeware tool called "Nautic Tools" to make the calculations. It's simply too much workload to do it with pen, paper & book all the time. The "nautic tools 1.20" from Markus Eisenbart is a mighty fine program (but in german) http://www.nautictools.de/ I also need help with removing the "tailfin" course marker of my own position. I don't know how to remove it. It was great for testing, but it needs to be removed for real navigation. do you know how??