VIDEO: Celestial Navigation Site Planning with StarPilot
Sight Planning
The following 3 part celestial navigation video series demonstrates celestial navigation using the StarPilot for Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. Sight planning features of the StarPilot are discussed in detail with examples. The videos illustrate the use of the StarPilot software in typical sextant and celestial navigation scenarios. There are three videos in the series.
Celestial Navigation - Sight Planning with StarPilot. Video 1 of 3
Learn to identify a body at a given DR. See demonstration of menu driven celestial navigation computations. Learn about settings, default settings, entering the DR, and lat lon. Learn how to use the help function. Learn site planning functions including surise/lan/sunset , moonrise/set/phase, how to precompute altitude, azimuth and compute nautical almanac values.
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Celestial Navigation - Sight Planning with StarPilot. Video 2 of 3
Learn how to use the Starpilot to identify celestial bodies you do not know. See the site planner display the map of the heavens at a specific time. More about celestial body identification, using pinch/zoom and pan and display difference for stars, moon, planets and magnitude and size. View and plot sky site planner at am twilight and pm twilight. Use "list body function" with computed altitude and azimuth. Learn to use best bodies to sight function. See grid plots for best sites to shoot.
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Celestial Navigation - Sight Planning with StarPilot. Video 3 of 3
Learn how to use the Starpilot Best Site feature with weighting factors. Establish cut off grid weights for computing goodness of the site. Identify 11 best celestial navigation sites in hierarchal order.
