{"id":77836,"date":"2017-01-10T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5c77971d24fd1c26fde503b7a18f071e"},"modified":"2017-01-10T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:29:13","slug":"news-story-navpac-4-free-software-upgrade-for-users-of-navpac-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77836","title":{"rendered":"News story: NavPac 4: Free Software Upgrade for Users of NavPac 3.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>We are delighted to announce the release of the much anticipated NavPac 4, HMNAO\u2019s celestial navigation software package. This is available as a free optional upgrade for existing registered users of NavPac and Compact Data 2016-2020. NavPac 4 can be used alongside NavPac 3.4. However, continued support will be available for NavPac 3.4 until 2020. NavPac 4 provides a much improved user interface and several new tools and features designed to make celestial navigation easier for the navigator.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>new star chart displays in the Find It function<\/li>\n<li>a new feature called \u201cFind Next\u201d in the Sight Reduction function that calculates when and where a vessel will be for the next Sun rise\/set\/meridian passage and civil\/nautical\/astronomical twilight based on the vessel\u2019s position, dead reckoning course and speed<\/li>\n<li>a night mode which makes NavPac convenient to use in situations which require the user to retain their night vision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further details can be found on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/astro.ukho.gov.uk\/nao\/navpacfour\/\">HMNAO\u2019s NavPac web pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NavPac 4 is the much anticipated software upgrade to HMNAO\u2019s celestial navigation software package<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}