--- Begin Message ---as a student of world war II methods of navigation, what about "pressure pattern navigation". A fixed heading gets you there even if you wander all over the sky. Just thought I would confuse the issue. Simon www.illustratingshadows.comPhoenix, AZSent via the Samsung Galaxy Alpha™, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Brent <[email protected]> Date: 09/24/2015 14:58 (GMT-07:00) To: Bill Gottesman <[email protected]> Cc: Sundials List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: due east photos "....an infinite number of compass directions to Mecca" allahu akbar! . On 9/24/2015 2:39 PM, Bill Gottesman wrote: Well, if you are going to allow compass directions, then that opens the door to all loxodromes. There are an infnite number of loxodromes that connect two points on a sphere, if you allow loxodrome paths that travel more than once around the globe! This gives an infinite number of compass directions to Mecca. -Bill On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Brent <[email protected]> wrote: I think you can face Mecca from 4 directions: 1. along great circle shortest direction 2. along great circle longest direction 3. along constant compass method shortest direction 4. along constant compass method longest direction I wonder if it says in Koran to face Mecca in shortest direction? brent
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