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Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
From: Arthur Pearson (arthurpearson@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 10:59:15 EST
And to view the hardware options for Palm Pilots, and a host of
additional software that will run on them and is available virtually for
free, try:
www.palm.com
www.palmgear.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Navigation Mailing List
[mailto:NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX] On Behalf Of Gennaro
Sammarco
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:57 AM
To: NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX
Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
www.mobilegeographics.com/celestnav/
it's a very handy program, called 'celestnav' very easy and handy, it
works
with palm os. You can try their demo fro free 30 days and after you must
register.I have their version 2.1, it has many features useful for
navigation altoghether with specific celestial navigation pages,
allowing
you to obtain lops very fast and easily.
The only problem might be the size of characters and pages, so small and
hard to see in poor light, but it's an overall quite unexpensive
alternative
to other calculator.
Other possibilities are special calculators available trough the
Celestaire
and Starpath website,but I don't have any experience on them.
A very good software, and free, is available on the page of Andree Ruiz,
toghether with other useful informations.
Fair winds
Gennaro Sammarco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Eno" <enoid@XXX.XXX>
To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
> Hello Jared,
>
> Ok, you got my attention. Tell me more. Is this the same as a "Palm
Pilot"?
> I take it that you can load some kind of program into this? Do you
know
of
> a website where I can have look at one of these?
>
> Now I am salivating ;-)
>
> Robert
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jared Sherman <jared.sherman@XXX.XXX>
> To: <NAVIGATION-L@XXX.XXX>
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Non-traditional Sight Reduction
>
>
> > Robert-
> > I love computers best from a distance, I've spent too much time
making
> them work for myself and others.
> >
> > But if you like the Celesticomp computer, you really owe it to
yourself
to
> look at the Palm. Even the cheapest $100 Palm now has 20? 100? times
the
> brains and memory of the Celesticomp. Anything the Celesticomp can do,
the
> Palm can do--but it can do a WHOLE lot more. Like give you a free
skymap,
> that shows stars and planets according to time and position. And be
very
> effective for email if you find a phone line. Or keeping an inventory
of
all
> the spares on board, and the contact numbers for the makers.
> >
> > All that and it easily will run for a month or two on two AAA cells,
which
> can be rechargable or a LiOn battery and a 12V ships power adapter for
> little more.
> >
> > You need to spend a half hour with someone who HAS a Palm, let them
show
> you what it can do, and the half hour becomes an afternoon or an
evening
and
> then you start shopping for one.<G>
> >
> > And unlike "computers", Palms tend to be rock stable. Fits in your
pocket,
> won't mess on the rug, waterproof cases and neck straps all readily
> available. 1/3 to 1/5th the price of the Celesticomps, same price if
you
buy
> a real high end Palm, and boy can any of them make the Celesticomp
look
like
> a fossil. (A nice fossil, but a fossil.)
> >
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