About Sextant
Celestial navigation - Astronavigation 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...
Celestial navigation - Astronavigation
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.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Sextant since it was posted on our website on 2019-10-25 20:22:37.
The latest version is 2.10 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 12:56:47. See below the changes in each version.
Sextant version 2.10
Updated At: 2023-12-18
Changes: - KEEP_SCREEN_ON
- Hibrid map added.
- New Sight input data screen.
- Show/hide time
- Day/night only data screen mode
Updated to:
-play-services-maps:18.2.0
-android 14 (API 34)
Sextant version 2.9
Updated At: 2023-12-05
Changes: - KEEP_SCREEN_ON
- Hibrid map added.
- New Sight input data screen.
- Show/hide time
- Day/night only data screen mode
Updated to:
-play-services-maps:18.2.0
-android API 34
Sextant version 2.8
Updated At: 2023-11-06
Changes: - KEEP_SCREEN_ON
- Hibrid map added.
- SO updated to Android 34
Sextant version 2.5
Updated At: 2023-10-03
Sextant version 2.4
Updated At: 2021-05-11
Changes: - Location permission required in order to set the observer latitude and longitude.
- Your last position is automatically saved.
- Storage permission needed for Google Maps cache and for save your position.
- More accurate
- Map - Type: normal, terrain and satellite. - Styles: night, grayscale, retro
- New optimized user interface
- Updated to Android 10.0
Sextant version 2.3
Updated At: 2020-05-02
Changes: - Your last position is automatically saved.
- Storage permission needed for Google Maps cache and for save your position.
- More accurate
- Map - Type: normal, terrain and satellite. - Styles: night, grayscale, retro
- New optimized user interface
- Updated to Android 10.0
Sextant version
Updated At: 2020-03-09
Changes: - More accurate
- Map - Type: normal, terrain and satellite. - Styles: night, grayscale, retro
- New optimized user interface
- Updated to Android 10.0
- Storage permission needed for Google Maps cache
Sextant version 1.5
Updated At: 2017-01-16
Changes: - Updated for Leap second (from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 37s ),- Terrain map added.,- Updated to Android 6.0
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