The free online Nautical Almanac
The world's most complete source of free celestial navigation information
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Useful Links
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The Nautical Almanacs and Sun Almanacs listed on our site were created or derived from a program written by the great Norwegian sailor Enno Rodegerdts. Without his work this site wouldn't exist. |
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Bauer This gentleman has taken the
great work of Dr. Rodegerdts and refined it to the
excellence you see on our site. He is unique
in this present age of ambition and represents a man
of generosity, humility and familiarity of knowledge
in making simple those things which are wise. Knowledge,
long and painstaking hours has he expended in
developing the works present. And for
what? Obscurity? I say, nah, but
remembrance and thanks by all of those who love and
practice celestial navigation. He has offered
his programs at no charge on his site so that you
might benefit from his efforts.
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| Celestaire
Celestaire
is the maker of the famous Astra III and IIIB
sextants. They offer many products and tools needed
for navigation, weather, communications and
astronomy. Celestaire's customer service is incomparable in terms of courtesy, knowledge and assistance. |
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Navigatrix
Navigatrix is a complete operating system for your computer. Navigatrix is
a compilation of electronic tools for
navigation, communication, information and
security that you can use offshore, on shore, or
at anchor. It is simple and lightweight and
based on the best Debian/Ubuntu has to
offer. Navigatrix also includes OpenCPN.
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Excel based celestial navigation
spreadsheets which can also be
used with LibreOffice Calc.
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This site provides
several Excel spreadsheets that will generate a
Nautical Almanac, Great Circle sailing waypoints and
a star finder. There is an abundance of
information about celestial navigation all on a very
handsome site.
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Online free nautical charts and
publications. A very comprehensive site
providing a huge amount of information covering all
aspects of the maritime world.
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OpenCPN
Open Chart Plotter
Navigation is a free open source chart
plotting program. Included
with many plugins OpenCPN also has a celestial
navigation sight reduction
plugin that graphically shows circles of equal
altitude. OpenCPN is the best free chart
plotting program available.
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| BackBearing.com This sailor has an excellent Sun Sight reduction Excel spreadsheet and other very useful information. |
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2019
"American
Practical Navigator"
Download only the chapters you want or the entire work. Originally written by Nathaniel Bowditch, now with many updates. |
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Shackleton,
Worsley, Amundsen, Harrison, Slocum, Sumner
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An
inexpensive Windows based program created by
NavSoft providing many features including the nautical
almanac in a compact format.
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| Erik De Man Erik,
a sailor from Belgium, has information on celestial
navigation and compiled Almanacs too.
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Umberto Salsi Mr. Salsi, a magnanimous gentleman from Bologna Italy, has created an excellent explanation of celestial navigation on his website. His work gives a simple, clear and thorough description of how and why celestial navigation works. There are plans on how to make an Astrolabe and how to plot your position using an analog computer- a Globe! If you have difficulty understanding CN Mr. Salsi’s webpage will be of great help.
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| James Caird Society The only
institution that exists to preserve the memory,
honour the remarkable feats of discovery in the
Antarctic and commend the outstanding qualities of
leadership associated with the name of Sir Ernest
Shackleton, KCVO (l874-l922), especially during the
ill-fated but glorious Endurance expedition.
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| MarineInsight.com World’s No. 1 Complete Maritime Information website about the business of commercial
shipping covering all aspects of the trade. Very
informative and honorable.
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Mr. Smith sails aboard Kiwi Roa which he designed and
built. His voyages have taken him to the Southern
Hemisphere high latitude regions of Antarctica, South
Georgia Island, Patagonia, Falkland Islands, St. Helena,
South Africa and Namibia. His photo stories are a
pleasure to read and give you the sense of what it’s
like to be in various parts of the world most of us will
never, or would never, venture to. Peter, also is the
designer of the most superlative, proven and reliable
anchor- the Rocna.
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The
cutest and most seaworthy dinghy in the world!
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Marine Torrent tracker First International Marine Torrent For Seafarers |
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The South
Georgia Museum is located at Grytviken, South Georgia
island, and holds many things from the island's
history of whaling, exploration and natural
history. Frank Worsley's nautical almanac is on
display there!
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“How to survive when
Technology doesn’t".
A free, large variety of books in pdf from
the time when electronics weren’t available. There are
many books about astronomy, navigation and any topic you
might be interested in. Most of the books are well
written and the authors endeavour to teach you about the
subject matter rather than boast of their personal
accomplishments.
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| What Time is it? Now you can see what time it really is...on the web. |
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A very
impressive graphic display of world weather.
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All
material on this website, except Pub. 229
& Pub. 249, or where copyright is ...freely ye received, freely give...
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