Navigational Algorithms

Navigational Algorithms

Navigational Algorithms is a source of information whose purpose is to make available the scientific part of the art of navigation, containing specialized articles and software that implements the various procedures of calculus. The topics covered are:

  • Celestial navigation: Sight Reduction, Line Of Position, Fix...
  • Positional astronomy: RA, GHA, Dec
  • Coastal navigation: Range, Bearing, Horizontal angles, IALA...
  • Sailings: Rhumbs, Loxodromic, Orthodromic, Meridional parts...
  • Weather, tides
  • Software PC- PDA: Nautical Almanac, Sailings, Variation, Sextant corrections

Contents

Advanced navigation

Include articles about piloting and astronavigation: Corrections for sextant altitude, Sight Reduction with calculator-Form & Plotting sheet for celestial LoPs, Celestial Fix - 2 LoPs, Celestial Fix - n LoPs NA Sight Reduction algorithm, Vector equation of the Circle of Position, Vector Solution for the intersection of two Circles of Equal Altitude, Sight Reduction - Matrix solution.

Basic marine navigation

Include papers about introduction to navigation, tides, naval kinematics, weather and oceanography

Navigation shareware

This section gives a brief description of the free programs available for navigation. Run under Windows XP, (maybe under 95/98/2000/NT)

Nautical Almanac

Ephemerides of the celestial bodies used in navigation.

Nautical Almanac
  • GHA - Greenwich Hour Angle
  • Dec - Declination
  • SD - Semidiameter
  • HP - Horizontal Parallax

CelestialFix

Astronavigation solution for sight reduction for n observations made with a marine sextant & running fixes


The algorithms implemented are: For n = 2 observations

  • An analytical solution of the two star sight problem of celestial navigation, James A. Van Allen[1].
  • Vector Solution for the Intersection of two Circles of Equal Altitude. Andrés Ruiz[2].

For n ≥ 2 observations

  • DeWit/USNO Nautical Almanac/Compac Data, Least squares algorithm for n LOPs
  • Kaplan algorithm, USNO[3]. For n ≥ 8 observations, gives the solution for course and SOG.

Magnetic declination

Any measure of course made with a magnetic compass must be corrected because of the magnetic declination or local variation.

See also

References

  1. ^ An analytical solution of the two star sight problem of celestial navigation. James A. Van Allen. NAVIGATION Vol. 28, No. 1, 1981
  2. ^ Vector Solution for the Intersection of Two Circles of Equal Altitude. Andrés Ruiz González. Journal of Navigation, Volume 61, Issue 02, April 2008, pp 355–365.The Royal Institute of Navigation
  3. ^ Determining the Position and Motion of a Vessel from Celestial Observations, Kaplan, G. H. Navigation, Vol. 42, No. 4, 1995, pp. 631–648

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