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


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

Isn't it true that the athmosphere can distort actual wherebouts of
wahtever up there in space? The same way when you put a straw into a
glass of water the image is not a 'straight line' even though the
straw is straight? Something like that.

So anyway TRUE north? Oh well that'sa very hard question isn't it? I
just think of north being smewhere between east and west but not
South.

Most of us can tell the time by the position of the sun; the hour
anyway. Except when that dang DST comes along and throws us off. ANd
then again 3PM looks later in the winter than it does in the summer
due to the fact the earth tilts on it's axis.

North! OH Magnetic North or north north? :)

Cinders

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

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