In this celestial navigation app, you can take sights, reduce observations, and calculate your position using astronomical data. Includes an almanac for sun, moon, planets, stars, and tools for sight calculation and data management.
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About iMariner Celestial Navigation
iMariner Celestial Navigation is a complete toolbox : sight, fix, meridian, starfinder, solar compass
Also embedded : nautical almanac (sun, moon, planets, starts) and astronomical computation (no more need for HO-249/HO-229 tables)
- displays almanac informations : Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and 92 brightest stars. At this step, you can use these almanac data with HO.249 tables, if you want to reduce manually.
- reduces a sight : getting your observed altitude and the precise time, it calculate Intercept and Azimut. You don't need any calculation ! Simply report Intercept and Azimut to your navigational chart.
- You can save your observations by passages and send them by email in CSV format
- take a fix : with two sights, iMariner is able to calculate your position (latitude/longitude)
- meridian passage : iMariner helps you to take observations mandatory to know your position (latitude/longitude)
- sight preparation : iMariner proposes you the best objects, here position (azimut and elevation), and the approximate time of the day the observation can take (nautical_twilight or nautical dawn).
iMariner is a standalone application. It doesn't require internet connection. It is light and calculations are optimized to save energy on your boat.
Includes a solar compass (and moon compass too).
REFERENCES :
iMariner has been inspirated by astronomical works of the following people.
Brightest Stars Catalog
Extraction of 92 stars >= 2.5 Mag from the vizier catalog, completed with some stars and star names.
V/53A Catalogue of the Brightest Stars (Ochsenbein+ 1988)
This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France
vizier.u-strasbg.fr
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Le catalogue des etoiles les plus brillantes Catalogue of the brightest stars
Ochsenbein F., Halbwachs J.L. =1987BICDS..32...83O
Ochsenbein F., Acker A., Legrand E., Poncelet J.M., Thuet-Fleck E.
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AlgorithmsFrom the reference book Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus
Planets : VSOP87D theoryTables extracted from ftp://ftp.imcce.fr/pub/ephem/planets/vsop87/ and adapted to Objective-C.
Bretagnon P., Francou G., : 1988, Astron. Astrophys., 202, 309.
Pierre Bretagnon, Gerard Francou Bureau des Longitudes
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France
Moon : ELP2000 theory
The lunar ephemeris ELP2000 M. Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront
Service de Mecanique Celeste du Bureau des Longitudes
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France
Sky Maps
Free maps from the IAU site : http://www.iau.org/public/constellations/
DeltaT value
maia.usno.navy.mil
Also embedded : nautical almanac (sun, moon, planets, starts) and astronomical computation (no more need for HO-249/HO-229 tables)
- displays almanac informations : Sun, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and 92 brightest stars. At this step, you can use these almanac data with HO.249 tables, if you want to reduce manually.
- reduces a sight : getting your observed altitude and the precise time, it calculate Intercept and Azimut. You don't need any calculation ! Simply report Intercept and Azimut to your navigational chart.
- You can save your observations by passages and send them by email in CSV format
- take a fix : with two sights, iMariner is able to calculate your position (latitude/longitude)
- meridian passage : iMariner helps you to take observations mandatory to know your position (latitude/longitude)
- sight preparation : iMariner proposes you the best objects, here position (azimut and elevation), and the approximate time of the day the observation can take (nautical_twilight or nautical dawn).
iMariner is a standalone application. It doesn't require internet connection. It is light and calculations are optimized to save energy on your boat.
Includes a solar compass (and moon compass too).
REFERENCES :
iMariner has been inspirated by astronomical works of the following people.
Brightest Stars Catalog
Extraction of 92 stars >= 2.5 Mag from the vizier catalog, completed with some stars and star names.
V/53A Catalogue of the Brightest Stars (Ochsenbein+ 1988)
This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France
vizier.u-strasbg.fr
=============================
Le catalogue des etoiles les plus brillantes Catalogue of the brightest stars
Ochsenbein F., Halbwachs J.L. =1987BICDS..32...83O
Ochsenbein F., Acker A., Legrand E., Poncelet J.M., Thuet-Fleck E.
=============================
AlgorithmsFrom the reference book Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus
Planets : VSOP87D theoryTables extracted from ftp://ftp.imcce.fr/pub/ephem/planets/vsop87/ and adapted to Objective-C.
Bretagnon P., Francou G., : 1988, Astron. Astrophys., 202, 309.
Pierre Bretagnon, Gerard Francou Bureau des Longitudes
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France
Moon : ELP2000 theory
The lunar ephemeris ELP2000 M. Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront
Service de Mecanique Celeste du Bureau des Longitudes
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau F75014, Paris, France
Sky Maps
Free maps from the IAU site : http://www.iau.org/public/constellations/
DeltaT value
maia.usno.navy.mil
iMariner Celestial Navigation Screenshots
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Reviews for iMariner Celestial Navigation
Hawaiian-beta
Over priced
Somewhat lacking in features for the price. I wish for a full refund.
Bud Conroy
Excellent app, great service
I use this app every day as a professional navigator. Very good for quick azimuths. iOS update created some color problems. I emailed them, and the problems are fixed with a new version very quickly.
