Mark The Shadow Pattern Analysis

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How to:

Step 1: Place the stick or branch into the ground at a level spot where it will cast a distinctive shadow. Mark the shadow's tip with a stone, twig, or other means. This first shadow mark is always west--everywhere on earth.

Step 2: Wait 10 to 15 minutes until the shadow tip moves a few centimetres. Mark the shadow tip's new position in the same way as the first.

Step 3: Draw a straight line through the two marks to obtain an approximate east-west line.

Step 4: Stand with the first mark (west) to your left and the second mark to your right--you are now facing north. This fact is true everywhere on earth. Section 3: Watch Navigation

You can also determine direction using a common or analogue watch (one that has hands). The direction will be accurate if you are using true local time, without any changes for daylight savings time. …show more content…

You can quickly draw a watch on a circle of paper or in the dirt with the correct time on it and use it to determine your direction at that time.

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How to:

Step 1: Place In the northern hemisphere, hold the watch horizontally and point the hour hand at the sun. Bisect the angle between the hour hand and the 12 o'clock mark to get the north-south line. If there is any doubt as to which end of the line is north,

Step 2: The sun is in the east before noon and in the west after noon.

Step 3: If your watch is set on daylight savings time, use the midway point between the hour hand and 1 o'clock to determine the north-south line. Step 4: In the southern hemisphere, point the watch's 12 o'clock mark toward the sun and a midpoint halfway between 12 and the hour hand will give you the north-south line

Remember
• That the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
• The further you are from the equator, the more accurate this method will be.

Section 4: Moon

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