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🧭 Sextant Horizontal Angles: Three-Landmark Fix, Error Growth and Danger Angle (2D chart)

A chart with three landmarks, a ship moving along the coast and an offshore rock. Two horizontal sextant angles give circles of position whose crossing is the fix; random sextant error scatters the fix, and a danger angle keeps the ship clear of the rock. Set distance offshore, reading error and landmark spacing, with five numerical checks.

Maritime & Naval Engineering2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🤖 ChatGPT⇄ 3D version
Sextant Horizontal Angles: Three-Landmark Fix, Error Growth and Danger Angle (2D chart) ↗ Open standalone
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A chart with three landmarks, a ship moving along the coast and an offshore rock. Two horizontal sextant angles give circles of position whose crossing is the fix; random sextant error scatters the fix, and a danger angle keeps the ship clear of the rock. Set distance offshore, reading error and landmark spacing, with five numerical checks.

sextanthorizontal angleposition fixdanger anglepilotage

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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