This piece is really good for reasons that go far beyond the hidden Indiana Jones style secret lab: Every six months, the star moves north or south in the sky

This piece is really good for reasons that go far beyond the hidden Indiana Jones style secret lab: Every six months, the star moves north or south in the sky at a scale equivalent to the hands moving 22 ten-thousandths of a second. To magnify parallax enough to see it, you need a very large telescope indeed.