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DelphiUniverse · 03-10-12, 05:47 PM

If you don't have the sun and it is night time you can use the north star to find true north as it will not "rotate" along the earth rotation. You can find the north star by finding the big dipper of 7 stars, the bottom end of the dipper will point directly to the north star, it should point north as you can see on the heading I have, I rotated the view a little bit to the right, you can see that it is just about north.

I turned to 000 degrees, straight north, you can see the big dipper straight above. It is good for finding north.

03-10-12, 05:47 PM	#3
DelphiUniverse 中国水兵 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Scapa Flow, underneath a ferry Posts: 272 Downloads: 125 Uploads: 0	If you don't have the sun and it is night time you can use the north star to find true north as it will not "rotate" along the earth rotation. You can find the north star by finding the big dipper of 7 stars, the bottom end of the dipper will point directly to the north star, it should point north as you can see on the heading I have, I rotated the view a little bit to the right, you can see that it is just about north. I turned to 000 degrees, straight north, you can see the big dipper straight above. It is good for finding north. __________________ A u-boat is a vessel for goodness - DelphiUniverse 2012 Last edited by DelphiUniverse; 03-10-12 at 06:02 PM.