Cheers, I’ll take a look. There’s not much I can see from here and I may not remember much of the info but it’s interesting
Edit: That’s so weird. The Big Dipper/Ursa Major which the Saucepan is from is shown to be in the north east, where on a night it was visible I thought it north west because it looked closer to the setting sun.
Yet it must be showing me the southern hemisphere because Orion is upside down and it’s using my location.
I wonder if the Big Dipper travels in a circle as the earth turns so it can be seen in different areas and different rotations. I wish this had been taught in school.
Can’t believe how lost I got last night. Ended up using the stars for bearings to get home which brought back memories lol.
Stars are still useful for navigation when you have a useless cheapo phone.
Any guides to that? I think I can find north-ish using the saucepan which is vaguely west going by the setting sun, but that’s about it.
I used to navigate by memory but now that’s gone
Yup I use stellarium wihich is free and easy :)
Cheers, I’ll take a look. There’s not much I can see from here and I may not remember much of the info but it’s interesting
Edit: That’s so weird. The Big Dipper/Ursa Major which the Saucepan is from is shown to be in the north east, where on a night it was visible I thought it north west because it looked closer to the setting sun.
Yet it must be showing me the southern hemisphere because Orion is upside down and it’s using my location.
I wonder if the Big Dipper travels in a circle as the earth turns so it can be seen in different areas and different rotations. I wish this had been taught in school.