1. Advanced navigation

2. Basic marine navigation

3. Navigation shareware
     Nautical Almanac    CelestialFix    Magnetic declination  

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

Navigational Algorithms is a web site 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, circle of equal altitude, 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

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 equal altitude, 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.

• 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

• Navigation
• Celestial navigation
• Nautical almanac
• Lunar distance (navigation)
• Sextant
• American Practical Navigator
• Rhumbline network
• Royal Institute of Navigation (Journal of Navigation)
• Institute of Navigation (NAVIGATION journal)
• Shortest path problem and automotive navigation, for navigational algorithms in other domains.

References

External links

• {{official website|http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/}}

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