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Re: Position from a photo
From: David Fleming
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 09:49 -0800
From: David Fleming
Date: 2012 Dec 27, 09:49 -0800
I would take a wide angle ( whole sky ) time lapse photo say 1 hour of the night sky and at some known UT point in time including date block the light to the camera for say a minute or two. That would encode both your latitude and longitude.
Dave F
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