Is SH5 A Good CelNav Practice And Test Bed?

[rmax]

You are welcome. I converted to Python as I was going to generate a SH5 Almanac (very few people are concerned with Navigation from 1939 - 1945...can't think why).

Anyhow. I found this gives a good description of Cel Nav, and how you use SHA and LHA.

http://www.dacust.com/navigation/pdf...lNavigator.pdf

It is a time since I tried this in SH5 (and the results were not good - but that could have been my lousy sun shots). At present I am stalking a Merchant ship off the coast of the UK, so not going to be getting into this in the short-term. If I do, I'll try and help as much as possible.

Originally Posted by rmax

You are welcome. I converted to Python as I was going to generate a SH5 Almanac (very few people are concerned with Navigation from 1939 - 1945...can't think why).

Anyhow. I found this gives a good description of Cel Nav, and how you use SHA and LHA.

http://www.dacust.com/navigation/pdf...lNavigator.pdf

It is a time since I tried this in SH5 (and the results were not good - but that could have been my lousy sun shots). At present I am stalking a Merchant ship off the coast of the UK, so not going to be getting into this in the short-term. If I do, I'll try and help as much as possible.

Thank you. FYI - I created a thread to log my CelNav experiences. You can find it at "Navigating Using Only Pilotage, DR, Compass, Speed, Chronometer, and In-Game Sextant." I'm also going to be keeping a sharp eye out for MagDec, current influences, etc. if any. It's a long-term project, but it might be my way to "give back" to this fantastic community.

[rmax]

I saw the thread, but didn't want to comment there and pollute it!

Just looking through my notes, I made a lot of use of these http://www.navigation-spreadsheets.com/

Some of the calculations end up being a little fiddly to do so this helped me a lot.

[rmax]

For various reasons I originally wrote the code in Python 2.x. I have updated it to Python 3, so now should work!