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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: David McN
Date: 2022 Dec 10, 22:45 -0800
Thanks everyone for your helpful replies. I have also considered this rough and ready method. My almanac gives me the time of transit of each star. I can quickly work out its altitude at transit by interaction of declination and latitude. I can make a rough estimate of rising (and setting) based on a rule of thumb: around 6 hours before transit for declinations similar to my latitude, 5 hours before for declination around zero, 4 hours before for dec up to my northern equivalent latitude. Then I can visualise the arc of rising, transit and setting sufficiently well to pre determine the stars to target for a round of sights. Remember, I'm a yachtie in dripping wet clothes being jiggled like a tea bag.
However, Frank's home made 3d star globe sounds very interesting. Can you share how to make it?