HP-71B Software for navigation

[Erwin]

[attachment=7596]Hello,

I'm back from my first sailing trip in Croatia - it was wonderful but no typical for astro navigation it's more a inshore navigation situation. But it was only to test the program in reality and myself in handling the sextant.
During the trip I had several possibilities to play around with my Mark 3 sextant and my HP71b program (sunsight). Handling and results are as good as for a first timer in astro navigation. So I decided to pull the program a step further:

• small improvements for data input (actual date, sextant input data, ...)
• choose short or extended result
• possibility to save several results so there is no need to write them down immediatly
• possibility to make formated printouts with my thermo printer
  

This will be my "winter project" this year. For myself - improve the handling with the sextant.

A possible project in the future could be a little program that helps calculate for inshore navigation based on the book "the calculator afloat" (bearing, distance, dead reckoning, tidal, ...).