At 05:57 AM 8/28/2006, Carl Smidt wrote:
> Did everyone in the northern hemisphere forget about the North Star???
We're planning for the long haul. In 20,000 years or so, Vega will be the
north star. Who knows who might be reading old TT archives trying to align
their Owl to True North, and get totally frustrated because that dim star
at the end of the little dipper is overhead, and clearly not "north". <grin>
As it happens, at my house, the North Star isn't visible from many places
in the back yard because of my neighbor's house and fence which is higher
on the hill. So I'd have to use the solar technique (or pick some other
stars and do some celestial calculation...)
Jim
Jim
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