**NEW TOOL*** Planetary Navigation Bearing Calculator.

drygin01

drygin01
Holà everyone!

http://www.hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/

EDIT: Ive plugged in a CMS so I can update the presets destinations easily and it gives me a platform to build upon.
The URL also changed to the one above.
Also, I can now create author account so if someone wants to keep it up to date, message me and we'll check it out. (Cannon?)


If the title was not enough...
It's a initial bearing calculator for planetary navigation. You provide your current location and the destination and it gives you the bearing to reach it in the shortest straight line.

I might still work on it a bit and I'm totally open the suggestions if someone want something added or changed.

EDIT: GitHub no more.

EDbearing was featured in ObsidianAnt video :D
https://youtu.be/JjJrTIbJnog?t=360

Edit: I stopped with the versioning and just play around whenever I feel like it.
Added categories and background image to presets.

v1.3:
I just updated EDbearing (http://www.hotdoy.ca/edbearing) with a ton of new features to easily share planetary destination between cmdrs.
You can now add custom title (just hover your mouse above the coodinates field.) to name only one go take alook for yourself !
and you can share fully populated pages like this one
http://www.hotdoy.ca/edbearing/?lat=-31.7877&lon=-128.9711&title=Ancient ruins 1
So your friends just have to enter their own coordinates.

v1.2:
I added query string last night. It's updated when destinations coordinates are changed. So you can now easily share a destination.
Ill had a title filed sometimes this week for easy identification.

Love. <3
 
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Abil Midena

Abil Midena
I think it's better to nav to planetary coords in orbital cruise. You try to do that in 'normal space' (i.e. after you complete the glide), and it will take you 3 weeks to get there.
 

drygin01

drygin01
Of course!
It's written down in the instructions.
But even minimum speed in orbital cruise is too fast so I suggest dropping, making he calculation, then you align and jump back in orbital cruise.

Even if you drop 2 or 3 times to make new calculations it's still quicker than doing a "L" navigation. (Looking for coordinates one at a time).
 

Iskariot

Iskariot
Abil Midena said:
I think it's better to nav to planetary coords in orbital cruise. You try to do that in 'normal space' (i.e. after you complete the glide), and it will take you 3 weeks to get there.
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I love tools like this. Rep to the author.

But...
Abil Midena has a good point.

Can we go into Supercruise again after we followed the instructions?

1. Approach planet until Orbital Cruise.
2. Stop ship completely (normal space).
3. Enter starting coordinates.
4. Enter destiation coordinates.
5. Align ship compas with given bearing.


In general I would like to say that FD should really add a build-in planetary navigation tool.
We need it.
And we will even need it more in the future, when we get access to atmospheric planets.
 
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drygin01

drygin01
777Driver said:
Is this a standard Rhumb line calculator?
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No it's more geodesic I think. I ripped the algorithm from the Canon toolkit (bunch of tools they use bundled in a Windows app).
I didn't know about rhumb and I'm surprised I didn't stumbled upon those on my research.
I might actually use this instead.
Much easier to navigate.

EDIT: It is a Rhumb line calculator! lol.

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Nick Sticks said:
For redundancy there is this other one as well:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-using-them!?p=4826498&viewfull=1#post4826498
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Yeah but 90s feel of it and the feeling that it runs on punch cards kind of turn me off.
 
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Tarrakis

Tarrakis
I've been using rhumb line calculations to find specific coords since Distant Worlds, but if this does the job in a similar manner, then I'm all for it - bookmarked :)
 

drygin01

drygin01
Tarrakis said:
I've been using rhumb line calculations to find specific coords since Distant Worlds, but if this does the job in a similar manner, then I'm all for it - bookmarked :)
Click to expand...

I want to test my tool as much as possible.
Could you give me the link to whatever you were using before? I just want to check my results.
 

drygin01

drygin01
Iskariot said:
I love tools like this. Rep to the author.

But...
Abil Midena has a good point.

Can we go into Supercruise again after we followed the instructions?

1. Approach planet until Orbital Cruise.
2. Stop ship completely (normal space).
3. Enter starting coordinates.
4. Enter destiation coordinates.
5. Align ship compas with given bearing.


In general I would like to say that FD should really add a build-in planetary navigation tool.
We need it.
And we will even need it more in the future, when we get access to atmospheric planets.
Click to expand...

You can otally go back in supercruise after. That was the idea. I updated the instructions.
 

Tarrakis

Tarrakis
drygin01 said:
I want to test my tool as much as possible.
Could you give me the link to whatever you were using before? I just want to check my results.
Click to expand...
I've been using this: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html, it has many different calculators, the rhumb line one is just over half way down the page.

And FTR, your instructions are exactly what I've been doing...although you might want to add that overshooting is likely, especially at high altitude. I normally stop close to the target, re-enter my new position and follow the new bearing. Instead of trying to find the coords at ground level, I get as close as possible at altitude, then FA off and use vertical thrusters to descend, then while doing that I use lateral movement to correct my position, make sure you pay attention to gravity using this method as I've turned FA back on too late and bellyflopped into the ground on a few occasions.
 
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