Timeline for How to tell the time at night
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| Dec 20, 2017 at 5:52 | history | edited | Charlie Brumbaugh |
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 9:53 | comment | added | Shawn | @BenCrowell hehe, indeed, the sun, moon, planets and stars are all "synchronized"; their movement is regular, predictable and correlated with each other. What I meant was that the position of the moon in the sky relative to the position of the sun in the sky (best indicator of time) changes every day. Therefore, any calculation using the moon to determine the time also needs to take into account the date and year. This makes calculations quite difficult without a reference chart. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 5:49 | answer | added | user2169 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 5:40 | comment | added | user2169 | @Shawn: The moon is not synchronized with the sun. Huh? They are almost exactly synchronized over the course of a night. A single night is a tiny fraction of a lunar month. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 8:15 | answer | added | WayfinderAli | timeline score: -1 | |
| Feb 16, 2012 at 4:58 | comment | added | furtive | Simpler than a watch? | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 22:37 | answer | added | Tomas | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 22:20 | vote | accept | Kent Fisher | ||
| Feb 15, 2012 at 22:12 | answer | added | Big General | timeline score: 18 | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 16:21 | vote | accept | Kent Fisher | ||
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| Feb 15, 2012 at 15:08 | answer | added | G. Jay Kerns | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 4:45 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackOutdoors/status/169643542145282048 | ||
| Feb 15, 2012 at 2:04 | history | edited | Russell Steen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2012 at 2:04 | comment | added | Russell Steen | The way you've asked the question, there's really no way to answer. There is no easy way to tell time at night without a watch, as Shawn explains. I've edited it to remove "straight forward" and make it more answerable. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 1:45 | comment | added | Shawn | The moon is not synchronized with the sun. You would have to calculate its position and have an extensive reference chart to make any sense of it. The moon is not a reliable source of time. | |
| Feb 15, 2012 at 1:21 | history | edited | Kent Fisher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2012 at 0:19 | history | asked | Kent Fisher | CC BY-SA 3.0 |