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Which way does my garden face?
How can i tell which way my garden is facing? The early morning sun hits the bottom of my garden and spreads across the rest of the garden so that by noon until late afternoon the entire garden is covered in sunshine.
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Passing up the opportunity to commnet on the obvious... try this:
Place a stick or branch into the ground vertically at a fairly level spot where the sun will cast a distinct shadow. Mark the shadow with a stone, twig, or other means Wait 10 or 15 minutes until the shadow tip moves a few inches. Mark the new position of the shadow tip as in previous step....
Draw a straight line through the two marks you made on the shadow tips. This line is an east-west line
The first shadow tip you mark is always west and the second mark is always east. To determine north, draw a line at a right angle to the east-west line at any point ...
(Thnks for the memory refresher from my Boy Scout's Handbook)
Place a stick or branch into the ground vertically at a fairly level spot where the sun will cast a distinct shadow. Mark the shadow with a stone, twig, or other means Wait 10 or 15 minutes until the shadow tip moves a few inches. Mark the new position of the shadow tip as in previous step....
Draw a straight line through the two marks you made on the shadow tips. This line is an east-west line
The first shadow tip you mark is always west and the second mark is always east. To determine north, draw a line at a right angle to the east-west line at any point ...
(Thnks for the memory refresher from my Boy Scout's Handbook)
Dustypuss - that isn't quite right ....
1. Get a blade of grass, or a short straight twig, or a match to use as a pointer.
2. Hold your watch horizontally, with the hour hand pointing in the sun's direction.
3. Lay the blade of grass or match across the middle of your watch, halfway between the hour hand and the 12.
The grass blade or match will then be pointing south.
.... taken from: http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/compass.h tml
1. Get a blade of grass, or a short straight twig, or a match to use as a pointer.
2. Hold your watch horizontally, with the hour hand pointing in the sun's direction.
3. Lay the blade of grass or match across the middle of your watch, halfway between the hour hand and the 12.
The grass blade or match will then be pointing south.
.... taken from: http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/compass.h tml
Magnetise a needle using a permanent magnet, stroking it gently in one direction several times. Place needle on a cork in a tub of water. The point of the needle, now being magnetised, turns around and faces north. Compare north to general physical features around garden, then deduce further compass bearings using trigonometry,as appropriate.
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