theDarkLard
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9 years ago Stoked.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM, hcrowl notifications@github.com wrote:
Let's determine True North once and for all.
Tomorrow, July 17, 2015, local noon* occurs at 13:07:04 (i.e. 1:07:04 PM) EDT.
@theDarkLard https://github.com/theDarkLard and @hcrowl https://github.com/hcrowl will meet on the roof of Dickinson at ~12:30 pm and set up a plumb bob. At the time of local noon, the shadow cast by the plumb bob will be exactly North-South. We will then use this line to determine True North.
*(http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/sunrise.html used to look up local noon)
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Let's determine True North once and for all.
Tomorrow, July 17, 2015, local noon* occurs at 13:07:04 (i.e. 1:07:04 PM) EDT.
@theDarkLard and @hcrowl will meet on the roof of Dickinson at ~12:30 pm and set up a plumb bob. At the time of local noon, the shadow cast by the plumb bob will be exactly North-South. We will then use this line to determine True North.
*(http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/grad/solcalc/sunrise.html used to look up local noon)