# Sextant

> For training or improving your skills with a sextant.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.Sextant](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.Sextant)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.Sextant`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Navigational Algorithms
- **Category:** MAPS\_AND\_NAVIGATION
- **Downloads:** 589
- **Version:** 2.12
- **Last updated:** 2025-04-23
- **First published:** 2015-04-27
- **Publisher country:** ES
- **Size:** 13 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Sextant)
- **Website:** [http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/](http://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/software/android](https://sites.google.com/site/navigationalalgorithms/software/android)

## Description

Celestial navigation - Astronavigation<br><br>For training or improving your skills with a marine sextant, an aircraft octant (bubble), an artificial horizon, or a theodolite.<br> - Real time calculation of the instrumental altitude Hs for comparison of your shots.<br> - Useful for index error determination.<br> - For Sun, Moon, and navigational stars and planets.<br> - Location on map of your position by GPS or manually. (&quot;Location&quot; App permission must be allowed. Switch on you GPS, and then automatic location detection is possible)<br> - Map: zoom, satellite, terrain and road map.<br>- KEEP_SCREEN_ON<br>- Show/hide time<br>- Day/night only data screen mode<br>- Show azimuth: plots Zn of the star from the observer&#39;s position.

## Rankings

- #1,320,620 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `com.Sextant.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES`

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.Sextant)