[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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