Sextant required! Instant celestial navigation... The most reliable
way to detect GPS Spoofing and other anomalies of electronic
navigation is by comparing against the measured altitudes of
celestial bodies including the Sun Moon bright planets and stars.
This app calculates the exact altitude that should be observed with
a sextant assuming that the GPS position is correct. No paperwork
is required no tables of corrections. All corrections are included
automatically: index error system time error dip of the horizon
refraction temperature and pressure corrections to refraction
altitude above sea level parallax and also gravitational deflection
of the vertical (a correction of up 2 nautical miles not handled by
any other celestial navigation sight-clearing product) are all
included automatically. It's also a great sextant trainer: take a
sight and immediately compare against the app's display. The app
works off-network. If a network connection is available it can
download temperature and pressure information automatically. The
ephemeris data is generated from the same JPL numerical
integrations of lunar and planetary motions used by the official
Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Almanac. All coordinates are
accurate to one second of arc and displayed sextant altitudes are
accurate to better than a tenth of a minute of arc (the limiting
precision of the best marine sextants).
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