Best Ez Celestial Navigation Apps

Sextant — Celestial Nav

Learn to navigate by the stars

$9.99

This app provides a comprehensive celestial navigation toolkit for sailors and enthusiasts. It allows users to navigate using celestial bodies like the sun, moon, planets, and stars, even when GPS is unavailable. The app guides users through taking sextant readings, performing calculations, and plotting positions on a map.

EZ Sextant

Navigate without GPS

$24.99

Navigate open waters using your phone's camera to sight celestial bodies. This app plots lines of position and combines them for an estimated location on a lat/lon grid. It's a powerful tool for offshore navigation without relying on GPS.

Celestial Navigator

by Omar reis

Free

This app assists with celestial navigation training by providing a perpetual almanac, star finder chart with animation, and tools for calculating lines of position and meridian passages. It can utilize device sensors for real-time chart positioning, though a marine sextant is still required for actual navigation.

EZ Nautical Almanac

ezNA

$9.99

Access 100 years of nautical almanac data digitally, from 1960 to 2059. This app offers enhanced navigation features like instant page access, highlighting, and zoom, supporting celestial navigation activities offline.

Circle Of Position Navigation

Sun Navigation

$8.99

This app provides a backup navigation system using the sun, similar to chart plotter satellite navigation. It requires manual sextant readings and allows users to input times and measurements to display their position on an electronic map, creating a journey track.

Celestial Navigation

Sextant Sight Reduction

$1.99

This application assists with celestial navigation by performing sextant sight reduction calculations. It displays intermediate numbers for verification and can draw lines of position on a map. Features include a perpetual nautical almanac and a star finder to identify celestial bodies.

Navigation Almanac

Celestial navigation offline

Free

This app provides a comprehensive offline celestial navigation toolkit. It calculates celestial body positions, sunrise/set times, and sky charts. It also offers tools for compass error correction and position fixing, all without requiring an internet connection.

Star Pupil

by Richard Craddock

Free

This app helps you practice celestial navigation by showing every step of sight reductions and plotting lines of position. It covers calculations for the Sun, planets, and stars using standard nautical publications.

StarPilot

by Starpath Corp

$49.99

This app provides advanced celestial navigation computations for iPhone and iPod touch. It offers mathematical and graphic solutions for position fixes, great circle sailing, and more, including lunar distance methods and a sight planner for accurate results.

EZ Lunars

ezLunarsOne

$24.99

This app provides pre-computed lunar distance tables and guidance for performing celestial navigation calculations, similar to methods used over a century ago. It includes all necessary tables and functions to assist users in planning, observing, and computing Greenwich time for lunar observations, with optional output to printable forms.

CamSextant

Sextant & Celestial Navigation

Free

This app functions as a celestial navigation tool, enabling users to take altitude measurements of celestial bodies using their phone. It provides real-time star and planet identification, automatic astronomical position calculations, and a perpetual nautical almanac.