[time-nuts] Slightly OT - GPS-Based Accurate Direction Finding
Heathkid
heathkid at heathkid.com
Thu Aug 26 03:46:11 UTC 2010
Hal,
Actually, there are many stars that can be seen with a telescope (don't
point it at the sun!) during the day *IF* you know precisely where to look.
The sky may be blue and bright... but it's still full of stars.
73 Brice KA8MAV
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Murray" <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>
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>
> Neville suggested stars. They don't work during the day, but amateur
> astronomers are pretty good at this problem. Can you go up some night
> ahead
> of time and survey a line between a pair of (semi-)permanent markers?
>
> Neither of those ideas work if there is too much cloud cover.
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