Sextant vVARY
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Developer Description
For training or improving your skills with a sextant.
For training or improving your skills with a marine sextant, an aircraft octant (bubble), an artificial horizon, or a theodolite.
- Real time calculation of the instrumental altitude Hs for comparison of your shots.
- Useful for index error determination.
- For Sun, Moon, and navigational stars and planets.
- Location on map of your position by GPS or manually. ("Location" App permission must be allowed. Switch on you GPS, and then automatic location detection is possible)
- Map: zoom, satellite, terrain and road map.
- KEEP_SCREEN_ON
- Show/hide time
- Day/night only data screen mode
- Show azimuth: plots Zn of the star from the observer's position.
Version Information
- Version
- -
- Downloads
- 500+
- Updated on
- -
- Released
- Apr 27, 2015
- Requires
- Android Varies with device
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Sextant users say on Google Play
Excellent. Most enjoyable to use.