The tedious work, connected to the altitude correction, the computation of altitudes and aximuths and the plotting of the position lines, has been a objection to celestial position fixing method. But using a computer , the severe objection will be practically overruled. The author had already studied on computerization of the sight reduction partially. This paper is to confirm reliability of coordinate of the moon and the navigational planet calculated by computer programming and to suggest a method of calculating ship's position fixed by two position lines.

In order to computerize the sight reduction process completely, the coordinates of celestial bodies have to be calculated. The author calculates the equtorial coordinates of the sun and stars using formulae by computer programming. And they are compared with data from an nautical almanac. Generally, data based on formulae is slightly less accurate than those derived from an nautical almanac. In the case of calculating coordinates of the sun, maximum error of GHA is 0'.2, and that of declination is 0'.1.

This paper concerns computerization of the altitude correction in the sight reduction process. To obtain observed altitude, the factors such as refraction, parallx, semidiameter, phase etc, are corrected to sextant altitude. The factors are the arguments into the nautical almanac table from which are extracted values to add to or substract from the raw sight to obtain corrected value. If the altitude correction is to be done by sophisticated calculator, each factors must be formulated. The author studies the formulation of above factors, and simply from the date and ephemeris time of the sighting calculate the values of the factors. The calculated values are compared with that from nautical almanac, and it is confirmed that the formulae are practically used.