Sightmaster 5

Product Specification

An advanced but simple to use Ocean Navigation program for the the Psion Series 5, written to take full advantage of the Series 5's capabilities. Menus give easy access to functions & the built in clock is available for real time navigation.

SIGHTMASTER 5 includes:

• Memory of all your data for navigation,including
• course
• speed
• last position
• height of eye
• body selected
• past sights
• waypoints
• routes
• date
• minimum & maximum altitudes for prediction
• Courses & bearings in degrees magnetic or true, height of eye in feet or metres,all selectable.
• 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. 
• Astronomical 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. 
• Automatic DR position update.
• Great circle sailing with selectable interval for plotting. 
• Mercator sailing or plane sailing selected automatically. 
• Storage of waypoints by number & descriptive name. 
• Storage of routes by number & descriptive name. 
• Saving of sights,waypoints,routes & data to memory & disk. 
• Printing of sights, routes,waypoints and predictions.

Minimum System Requirements:

Psion Series 5 4MB or 8MB RAM Model with 100 Kilobytes free internal disk space.