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Marine Navigator 5  Product Specification An advanced but simple to use Navigation program for the the Psion Series 5. MARINE NAVIGATOR 5 combines GPS (Satellite Global Positioning System) input with traditional Navigation techniques into an easy to use but very comprehensive Navigation program. MARINE NAVIGATOR 5 can be interfaced with a GPS receiver for “real time” navigation, used on its own for navigation planning or used with a traditional marine sextant for astronomical navigation. MARINE NAVIGATOR 5 overcomes the limited memories of GPS units by allowing any number of Waypoint and Route files, up to the limit of the free memory in your Psion. MARINE NAVIGATOR 5 will work with any GPS receiver which can output NMEA 0183 position sentences and provides an easy, portable way of carrying your navigational information about with you. GPS AND GENERAL NAVIGATION functions include: GPS and DR (Dead Reckoning) modes with automatic update of position. Instant Waypoint function for logging fishing locations etc.Track logging facility. Multiple Waypoint files with Goto Waypoint function. Multiple Route Files with Route following function. Storage of waypoints by number & descriptive name. Storage of routes by number & descriptive name. Mercator sailing or plane sailing course and distance calculation selected automatically.Great circle sailing course and distance calculation with selectable interval for plotting.Courses & bearings in degrees magnetic or true. ASTRONOMICAL NAVIGATION functions include: Sight reduction with all corrections automatically applied; just select the body & enter the time. Inbuilt almanac accurate within 1. 0' of arc for the years 1900 to 2100. ALL astro bodies, comprising 59 stars,the Sun,the Moon,Venus, Mars,Jupiter & Saturn are in the Almanac & no external tables are necessary. Prediction of co-ordinates for any body. "ASTROPLAN";prediction of all bodies for any time within your selected altitude limits. LHA Aries for any time. Rapid star identifier;gives you the Star's name from estimated bearing & altitude. Fix by statistics from any two or more sights. Past sights can be inspected & edited. Times of twilights & sun's meridian passage. Latitude from meridian passage. Saving of sights to disk.sights to disk Minimum System Requirements Psion Series 5 4MB or 8MB RAM Model with 100 Kilobytes free internal disk space.  |
