CamSextant vs Anchor & Course

CamSextant is the easiest celestial navigation tool. It allows taking altitudes of celestial objects, using your phone as a sextant. It is a complete celestial navigation solution, with instrument, nautical almanac and celestial calculator. Point a celestial object and tap the image to capture the altitude and time. Stars and planets shown on screen in real time. Show constellation names and lines. Identify planets and navigation stars (from Hipparchus 150 catalog). The program can also speak the star names and altitudes (audio). Astronomic Position (AP) is automatically calculated once you have two sights. Calculate your astronomical position with less than 10 clicks. Perpetual nautical almanac using Astronomical Algorithms ( book by J. Meeus). If you take altitude observations of the same object, the average time/altitude are shown. You can calibrate the sextant horizon by reading the sea horizon altitude. Note that the phone is more like a bubble sextant: you don't need the sea horizon to use CamSextant. Anyway, click [Calibrate] button to save the correction. Calibration angle is subtracted from raw sensor reading. If you have a marine sextant at hand, you can edit the altitudes captured by the phone and get serious celestial navigation work done. Translations for en, es, fr, it, pt ( program texts and voice ) For more information check: http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav/CamSextant/

Main features are listed below. For Anchoring: • set the sae area for your anchoring. Adjust flexible shape (not just a circle) • raise an alarm if your boat leave the safe area • check the wind and weather forecast for given anchoring point • set and adjust the safe area manually, without map’s support in areas with no internet access For Course tracking: set the straight course to the desired destination (not straight on a map, but really straight) set the acceptable track threshold, within which the course is considered OK raise an alarm if boat leaves behind the set threshold, meaning the course is lost manually set and adjust the course destination point, with no internet access needed For the communication: • check remotely the boat’s position in anchoring mode. What is needed: • Anchor & Course application installed on your and remote devices • users logged in on both devices • remote users added to the list of accepted users on each device (to achieve both way data exchange) • data is sent only between two devices and temporarily displayed on the second device. • data is not stored anywhere and is lost once the user closes the app. Celestial Navigation in Your Pocket Determine your approximate global position using just your phone—no GPS or cellular connection required! Perfect for navigation enthusiasts, educational purposes, and survival practice. Key Features: • Calculate your approximate position completely offline. • Take multiple measurements to improve your probable location calculation. • Enter manual values to bypass phone sensor limitations. IMPORTANT ACCURACY DISCLAIMER: Please note that a smartphone is not a professional optical sextant. Expect an accuracy margin of roughly 20 to 150 km. This tool is for educational and recreational use only and should NEVER be relied upon for critical navigation. > Inaccuracies are a natural result of: • Smartphone sensor noise (magnetometer and accelerometer limitations). • Variations in the Earth's magnetic field and declination. • Atmospheric refraction affecting the perceived altitude of celestial bodies. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) apply (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)