StarPilot vs EZ Nautical Almanac

The state-of-the-art solution to navigation computations on your iPhone or iPod touch. StarPilot does celestial sight reductions of all bodies using high-precision internal almanac, plus mathematical and graphic solutions for position fixes, great circle, rhumb line, traverse and composite sailings, all current problems, piloting solutions, and much more...including lunar distance method of finding GMT from the sky and a unique graphical Sight Planner, and the new Sight Analyzer function that helps you get the most accurate results from a series of sights. The StarPilot is the self sufficient state of the art solution to ocean navigation, fully up-gradeable with free upgrades available via Internet download, easy to use operation from logical menu lists, plus illustrated context sensitive help with practice exercises. The StarPilot requires no external resources to complete its computations. Internet access is not required to use this program or to access any of its help files. General program design features... that save time, keystrokes, and minimize errors - Easy to use menu-driven interface - Stored settings of commonly used values - All bodies and star names stored internally, no need for separate lists - DR functions integrated with the celestial functions - Convenient DR updating by log or time - Input courses as true or magnetic - Convenient time input, with or without zone description and watch error - Graphing calculator plots LOPS, Fixes, DR positions, and Star maps - Program can be easily updated to incorporate latest version and features - Custom menu bar for quick navigation to often-used functions Sight Planning - Sunrise, Sunset, times and bearings (amplitudes) - LAN, time, Equation of time, Hs max at LAN1 - Nautical and Civil twilight times, and LHA Aries at midpoint between them - Moonrise, Moonset, Moon phase, and Moon age - Precompute specific values of Hc and Zn for any body - Planet and Star ID by observed height and bearing - SIGHT PLANNER function plots full sky showing moon, stars, and planets in Radar-like display of heights and bearings. Set Hc min/max and max number of stars before computation. Set cursor and click to read the actual height and bearing of a plotted body. - Special fast almanac mode allows full sky plot - Display internal list of 173 stars by name, brightness, and location - Unique BEST SIGHTS function selects the optimum triads of sights for any sky Sight Reduction - Optional modes for sequential sights using repeated settings or unrelated individual sights - Perpetual almanac accurate to 2100+ - Historically accurate almanac data to 16th century - Sight reduction of Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn... plus Mercury! - Sight Reduction of 173 stars plus Polaris - “Assumed positions” read directly from DR section without extra input - View intercepts (a-values) with or without course and speed corrections - Full input data displayed with results to check for errors - Special center-body mode for artificial horizon data - Dip-short mode for practice at shorelines Celestial Fixes - Unique SIGHT ANALYZER fits a sequence of sights to the right slope for optimum sight selection - All fixes corrected automatically for course and speed as needed - Fix accuracy independent of DR accuracy in all cases - Plots LOPS with live cursor position display - Fix computed by USNO algorithm in the Nautical Almanac - Zoom in on plot to see where computed fix is located - Fix can be obtained by graphic selection from the LOP plot - Automatic display of DR-to-Fix range and bearing - Optional automatic update of DR after fix - Display new course and distance to stored destination

You need a Nautical Almanac to do celestial navigation. In today’s digital age, why buy a new book every year when you can buy a digital Nautical Almanac that provides 100 years of Nautical Almanacs (1960 - 2059) for less than half the price of a single year of the book. All data is formatted and organized exactly as you are used to seeing it in the official Nautical Almanacs published by USNO and HMNAO. Here are some things you can do with ezNA that you can’t do with your book: - Generate and use 100 years of Nautical Almanac pages for the years 1960 through 2059. - Easily go directly to the page you want without thumbing through pages. - Highlight the data you are looking for by touching the row and column headings on the page. - Zoom and pan to clearly read the tables. - Using Zoom, pan, and highlight makes the almanac easy to use on a phone as well as a tablet. - Functions are provided to do the necessary table lookups to perform basic Cel Nav activities. - The function pages show all almanac values used in the function with an almanac icon. - Click or touch the icon to go to the correct page with that value highlighted. The concise sight reduction tables are included and the sight reduction function demonstrates how to use them. If you have never used them then you are in for a big surprise. They are amazing! In the format I am generating them, they are a total of 16 pages (32 pages in the official Nautical Almanac). With this few pages and a few extra steps to use them you can still generate sight reductions that are typically within about 1 NM of those produced by Pub 229. Pub 229 has about 400 pages per volume and there is a total of 6 Volumes! ezNA performs all astronomical calculations using the NOVAS 3.1 software from the US Naval Observatory (USNO) and a JPL ephemeris that covers the years 1960 through 2059. Since all calculations are performed in the app, ezNA is fully functional with no dependency on a data connection. Please note that this digital Nautical Almanac is already included in ezAlmanacOne, which is our full celestial navigation solution. There is no need to purchase ezNA if you already have ezAlmanacOne. ezNA is NOT a full celestial navigation solution. It is a digital Nautical Almanac with functions to support using the Nautical Almanac tables. You can only do a single full sight reduction at a time. Using ezNA and manually recording and plotting your reductions you can still generate a fix manually!