19 Best Sextant iOS Apps1) Sextant This shiny new gold sextant would make a pirate proudNavigate with your GPS while you fake out the crew with this old style technology. Also check out our new H1 Sea ClockSimple to use...Sight the horizon viewing along the top edge and tap `Horizon", it displays "-0-".Sight a star viewing along the top edge and tap "Celestial", it displays the angle.You can sight along the right edge for a little more accuracy.The animated sextant display remains pointing at the horizon as you rotate to shoot the star, the iPhone in the last image is actually rotated to the right to ... ($0.99)By Tech Center Labs via 2) Octant Sextant Application de prsentation de Octant Sextant, un immeuble de bureaux repens par Gecina Levallois-Perret.Situe aux portes de Paris et accole Neuilly, la ville de Levallois-Perret accueille, au 2-4 quai Charles Pasqua, le projet Octant-Sextant. Naviguant entre le confort de vie la parisienne et les plus grands ples tertiaires franais, le quartier offre un univers mixte sans quivalent. En bord de Seine et aux pieds des quais, les immeubles Octant-Sextant stendent chacun sur 10 tages. Sur 17 500 m2 pour lun et 20 100 m2 pour lautre, ils prsentent une pliade despaces de confort comme des atriums, une salle de fitness, ... (Free)By H4 France via 3) Sextant Stars Horizon view of the navigational stars and their constellations, with interactive rote learning modes. 'Recognize' mode randomly highlights stars in the view. How many can you name? 'Find' mode does the converse. Given their names, become adept at pointing out the stars' positions (1.990)By Nicholas Braun via 4) Solar Sextant Find your location on the Earth like the sailors did, without GPS or the internet, just your iPod or iPhone and the Sun. This paid version uses your sightings to get a fix on your location to within a few miles. You can email your sightings, use only a subsample to get a fix. It requires a camera and accelerometer.This is not a simulation. You actually measure the location of the Sun with the build-in camera and the app figures out where you are. ($1.99)By Jeremy Heyl via 5) Solar Sextant Free Find your location on the Earth like the sailors did, without GPS or the internet, just your iPod or iPhone and the Sun. This free version uses your first and last sighting to get a fix on your location to within about one hundred miles. It requires a camera and accelerometer.You can get the paid version which allows you to use many sigh tights to get a fix to a few miles, to use only a subset, and email your sightings.This is not a simulation. You actually measure the location of the Sun with the build-in camera and the app ... (Free)By Jeremy Heyl via 6) aye.earth - Sextant and Horizon Calculator Welcome to aye.earth - Tools to observe, test, measure and share data about the place we live.aye.earth utilises the inbuilt features and sensors of the iPhone and iPad, such as the camera, inclinometer, magnetometer and GPS.It intelligently combines this data to provide tools and calculators relevant to gathering and/or providing information about our reality. You can take photos of landmarks and/or luminaries, thereby automatically recording the GPS location data of the camera together with the bearing and inclination/declination of the sighted object(s), or part(s) of object(s).These saved observations can be categorised, filtered and notes can be optionally added. The photos ... (2.990)By Neil Kerslake via 7) Sextant Travel – Beautiful Hotels and Destinations Sextant is a photo based travel app that makes it easy to discover and save amazing destinations to inspire your next vacation.Have you ever been on social media and seen a photo of beautiful location, but have no idea where it is? Every photo on Sextant is geo-tagged so you know exactly where the spot is. Scroll through the feed to see big, beautiful photos of incredible places. Save (heart) all the places you'd love to visit someday.Click on the photo to get all the relevant information - website, phone number, hours, etc.Use search to discover even more incredible places ... (Free)By Alexis Shimanoff via 8) Pig Sticker, wild boar hunting Practice your ninja skills in this wild boar hunt, head shots score the highest.Control your shurikan by tilting the iPhone/iPod.-------------------------------More fun apps from Tech Center Labs...Bot Hive. New with ScoreloopShell Game.Splashdown.Tornado Alley.Apollo Lunar Lander game.Docking the LEM game.Pirate Bones 3-D.Clinometer for your Yacht.Clinometer for your Sailboat.Little Hal.Nebula.Pin the tail on the donkey.Virtual Sextant.------------------------------- ($0.99)By Tech Center Labs via 9) Saturna Saturna Capital Corporation, manager of the Amana, Sextant, and Idaho funds, uses years of investment experience to aid investors in navigating todays volatile markets. Founded in 1989 by professionals with extensive experience, Saturna has helped individuals and institutions build wealth, earn income, and preserve capital.Our app conveniently consolidates daily prices of our mutual funds, market commentary, podcasts, videos, contact information and account access into an easy to use format. (Free)By Saturna Capital via 10) ezSights ezSights is a complete celestial navigation package for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It provides simple interfaces for entering sight parameters, planning the navigational bodies to use and time of day to make the observations, and entering the observations made using a sextant. Then with the click of a button a fix is determined from the observations made.FeaturesInternally calculated Nautical Almanac values, valid through 2060.Performs all calculations with same algorithms used by the US Naval Observatory for the Nautical Almanac.Supports all navigational bodies currently referenced in the Nautical Almanac.Computes rise and set times for the sun and moon.Animated star ... ($24.99)By Brian Johnson via 11) Clinometer This Clinometer for your sailboat or yacht features a large, easy to read, digital display and a beautiful ornate gold frame that remains vertical to provide a visual indication of the amount of heel. It makes a great companion for our Gold Sextant. Also check out our new H1 Sea ClockFair Winds,GaryTCL-----------------------------More fun apps from Tech Center Labs...Bot Hive. New with ScoreloopShell Game.Splashdown 3-D.Tornado Alley. Scoreloop enabledPirate Bones 3-D.Apollo Lunar Lander game. Scoreloop enabledDocking the LEM game.Clinometer for your SailboatLittle Hal.Nebula (handy list).Pig Sticker (wild boar hunting)Pin the tail on the donkeySextant---------------------------- ($0.99)By Tech Center Labs via 12) AstroNav Lite AstroNav, the one-stop solution to finding your position with celestial bodies.Now available as free lite version with reduced functionalityUse this app in conjunction with its inbuilt sextant or a commercial one to find your position on Earth at any time.All you need is the Sun, Moon, a star or planet in the sky and a steady hand.You do not even need a sextant to use this app as this functionality is built in and can give you accuracies to within a degree with practice, which is good enough to give your position to a few miles.(Note that the Lite version ... (Free)By Sascha Troscheit via 13) Celestial Navigation This app does all the calculations to reduce a sextant reading to a line of position on the map. All intermediate numbers are shown to check your manual calculations. Perpetual nautical almanac Calculation of the line of position (azimuth and distance) Draws the line of position on the map. Star Finder: just point your device to the sky to identify the navigational stars. Save your readings, choose what to show on the map.A sextant is required to make full use of this app. (1.99)By Dr. Harald Merkel via 14) AstroNav AstroNav, the one-stop solution to finding your position with celestial bodies.Use this app in conjunction with its inbuilt sextant or a commercial one to find your position on Earth at any time.All you need is the Sun, Moon, a star or planet in the sky and a steady hand.You do not even need a sextant to use this app as this functionality is built in and can give you accuracies to within a degree with practice, which is good enough to give your position to a few miles.It is of course not a replacement to the iPhones ability to find ... ($3.99)By Sascha Troscheit via 15) Noonish - discover local solar times. Noon... ish Based on your location, Noonish calculates - true (aka "apparent") solar time - mean solar time- solar and lunar events Have you ever wanted to make sure your sundial was working? Have you ever wanted a totally excellent, inane, and esoteric reason why you were 'late'? Have you found yourself in the middle of the Atlantic wondering what time it was so you could determine your location with a sextant? Do you wonder when the sun comes up in the morning? When it's darkest at night? Step right up"My friend Tim loves this app." - Albert Einstein"I'm hungry." ... (0.990)By Rotblauer, LLC via 16) CamSextant CamSextant allows measuring celestial objects altitudeswith your phone, like a marine sextant. The app uses the phone gyroscope and camera.Point the phone to a celestial object andcapture the altitude reading and time information necessary for celestial navigation. You can calibrate thephone gyro, by reading the sea horizon altitude. For more information check:http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav/CamSextant/ (Free)By Omar reis via 17) Angle converter professional Use this useful tool to convert angle choosing one of the 14 units of measurment included in this app (with the availability to add custom units), that are:degree, radian, grad, gon, minute, second, mil, sign, revolution, circle, turn, quadrant, sextant, right angle.For every units of measurment are also included formulas to convert that unit as you want. (1.990)By Andrea Barcaro via 18) ezSights ON SALE 40% OFF Buy ezSights, review it, and get a FREE ezAlmanac download. Two apps for the price of one See ezcelestial.com for details.ezSights is a complete celestial navigation package for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It provides simple interfaces for entering sight parameters, planning the navigational bodies to use and time of day to make the observations, and entering the observations made using a sextant. Then with the click of a button a fix is determined from the observations made.FeaturesInternally calculated Nautical Almanac values, valid through 2060.Performs all calculations with same algorithms used by ... ($14.99)By EZ Celestial LLC via 19) Astronavigation The app enables navigation with the sun and is comparable to satellite navigation on a chart plotter. A sextant is needed because, unlike satellites, the sun does not emit radio signals. The distance to an observer must therefore be measured manually with a sextant from the earth. For a position determination only the times and the sextant readings of two observations to be entered. The position is immediately displayed as a ship symbol on an electronic map. A track of the journey is displayed based on the positions determined and the data from an integrated dead reckoning module. So, the ... (Free)By Helmut Hoffrichter via
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