Finding North using a watch
Submitted by duges66 on Wed, 2015-02-11 11:15
Analogue watch - Aim 12 o'clock (top of the dial) at the sun the point midway between 12 & the hour hand is North.
Digital watch - using your knowledge of what an analogue dial looks like repeat above.
If by chance it is exactly 6 am - 9 o'clock is Nth
If it's 6 pm 3 o'clock is nth.
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/survival-skills/how-to-use-a-watch-as-a-compass/
Scroll down to southern hemisphere (disregard the twig comment just use your eyes and your brain)
Hope this helps.
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Leemo
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Watch North
yup. 99% of the time I can locate where we area but just those days where its a complete glass off and the fog rolls in is so hard to do without electronics.
bludgin' since 94'
Rob H
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finding north is all well and
finding north is all well and good if you want to go north but what if you want to go east
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Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
Percula
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daylight savings
How about then?
darren monks
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want to go east then watch
want to go east then watch the sun rise at dawn and pick a landmark where it's rising.
ditto west at dusk.
south and north at night via southern cross.
Rob H
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if you could see a landmark,
if you could see a landmark, you'd have a pretty fair idea which way east was without waiting for the sun
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
timboon
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The Sun rises in the NE &
The Sun rises in the NE & sets in the NW for winter Daz an rises in the SE and sets in the SW in summer virually.....
timboon
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Virtually even, I used this
Virtually even,
I used this website to check the sun angles on my block before designing our house...
Useful tool I'm sure there are lots out ther like this one...
http://www.sunearthtools.com/dp/tools/pos_sun.php