30 Jun 08 15:54, Cindy Haglund wrote to Roy Witt:


 ML>> i thought that was what the big dipper was for? ;)

 RW>> According to the photo that Roger sent me; the North star is the
 RW>> last star in the Little Dipper's handle. The Big Dipper's two stars
 RW>> that form the end of the cup, form a straight line that points at
 RW>> that star. I can't see the Little Dipper because of the lights, but
 RW>> I can see the Big Dipper and find the North Star using the above.


 CH>  Hey everybody. I'm about to throw in a monkey wrench. :)

Be careful with that thang!

 CH> Isn't it true that the athmosphere can distort actual wherebouts of
 CH> wahtever up there in space?

Not necessarily.

 CH> The same way when you put a straw into a glass of water the image is
 CH> not a 'straight line' even though the straw is straight? Something
 CH> like that.

No.

 CH> So anyway TRUE north? Oh well that'sa very hard question isn't it?

Well, yours is. "So anyway TRUE north?" Think about it.

 CH> I just think of north being smewhere between east and west but not
 CH> South.

If that's all you need to know.

 CH> Most of us can tell the time by the position of the sun; the hour
 CH> anyway.

Yeah? What time is it when you can get 4 fingers between the sun and the
horizon?

 CH> Except when that dang DST comes along and throws us off. ANd
 CH> then again 3PM looks later in the winter than it does in the summer
 CH> due to the fact the earth tilts on it's axis.

 CH> North! OH Magnetic North or north north? :)

 CH> Cinders

 CH> ... That's how we know the Earth is banana-shaped.

That figures.

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