originallutece: you're not that annoying! congrats! (happy; soft gaze)
Rosalind Lutece ([personal profile] originallutece) wrote in [community profile] networkinthenight 2019-11-07 01:31 am (UTC)

If this were an ordinary sky, I could show you. But as it stands, the sky here is different than the one at home. So we have to substitute Polaris for another.

Do you see those?

[Those two overly bright stars, one right next to the other.]

They're fixed, meaning we can utilize them as a marking point for directions. But the question remains: how do we figure out which is north?

[She walks a little ways. It's not hard to find two sticks, setting them up in alignment with those stars. She kneels primly, then beckons.]

Lie on your stomach, and line up those stars with the sticks, so it's all in a straight line with your eyesight. And tell me which direction it moves in: left, right, up or down. It will, sooner or later. The stars still obey a 24-hour cycle.

If it goes up, those stars are in the east. Down is west. Right is south, and left is north.

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