In message <20120124115848.312d60bd4fccce4f3e71c...@kinali.ch>, Attila Kinali w rites:
>All this talk about telling the time using stars or the sun made me wonder >how did people tell what position their telescopes had back in the days >before GPS? Back then the stars were the coordinate system and the position of the telescope the unknown, so you did it by observing stars with documented coordinates with your new telescope and then you set your clock and calculated your lattitude accordingly. Remember: back then longitude and time were as single convolved coordinate. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
