Re: [FairfieldLife] East is always east

--- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rick, Could you post this on ffl? - I have noted the big correspondence on the matter of east. East is an earth-based direction and is always the same. This helps if east is only determined by the earths rotational poles. Then the rising

Re: [FairfieldLife] East is always east

This helps if east is only determined by the earths rotational poles. Then the rising point of the sun and the stars in the background are irrelevant for determining east. The stars were used for determining direction thousands of years ago, when no other methods were available, but

[FairfieldLife] East is always east

Hi Rick, Could you post this on ffl? - I have noted the big correspondence on the matter of east. East is an earth-based direction and is always the same. The pole does wobble round to point at different parts of the sky, but the axis of rotation does not significantly change relative to the

Re: [FairfieldLife] East is always east

Eureka! --- Rick Archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rick, Could you post this on ffl? - I have noted the big correspondence on the matter of east. East is an earth-based direction and is always the same. The pole does wobble round to point at different parts of the sky, but the axis