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Re: Where are you if you see this sky?
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Mar 31, 09:41 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Mar 31, 09:41 -0700
Roger. Am stuck in Staffordshire Hills with only smart phone, so trying to keep messages short. Continued: Alternatively, you could play around with spherical trigonometry. You have two co-decs and a difference in hour angle, so you can calculate the distance between the two stars. Then you have a side side side triangle of two stars and your zenith. Then perhaps, if you get into right triangles, there will be a method of pinning your zenith to your latitude. There must also be a simultaneous equation method of solving this, but that's a bit outside my pay scale. DaveP
