On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want true north, set up a camera that has time or bulb shutter at the > south end of your property. Put in a marker stake. take a time exposure at > night with the camera facing north. If you expose for about 30 minutes, you > will get a landscape with the stars rotating around the north star. You can > then mark the north location on your property under the north star.
I vote this suggestion as the winner. The north ster is offset a little from the pole but if will make an arc like the others and you can find it's center. This method could get you to better than a degree.. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
