seandepagnier / celestial_navigation_pi

celestial navigation plugin for opencpn
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Added corrections for stars #9

Closed PovlAbrahamsen closed 7 years ago

PovlAbrahamsen commented 7 years ago

While the existing plugin worked well with sun, moon, and planet sights, it was not treating stars correctly. This update adds corrections for star sights.

  1. It uses updated star positions from the SIMBAD Astronomical Database (http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/)
  2. Positions are corrected for proper motion and parallax.
  3. Positions are corrected for frame bias, precession, and nutation.

New files:

To do: we should acknowledge the use of the SOFA function somewhere in documentation.

rgleason commented 7 years ago

That's great Povl. Thank you. We will add the proper credits you mention in the documentation.

rgleason commented 7 years ago

Ok that's done now. See https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opencpn:opencpn_user_manual:toolbar_buttons:plugins:navigation:celestial_navigation#accuracy_of_data

Now we just need to figure out why in Windows version Opencpn bombs when entering the second sight.