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Australian checking in. for the second time this week I'm commenting that your US/Northern Hemisphere sun goes THE WRONG WAY for my internal navigation instinct

• Taniwha 4y ago
  Their moon is upside down too
  • lsh123 4y ago
    And stars are wrong too ;)
    • dylan604 4y ago
      Not just wrong, they are totally different stars. Good luck finding the Big Dipper down under! Maybe because I've seen northern hemisphere sky for 40+ years, the southern hemisphere sky is much more interesting to me. Just seeing Large/Small Magellanic clouds and realizing those are the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. Seeing Alpha/Beta Centauri and knowing those are the closest stars to our Sol. Just kind of different cool
      • bigiain 4y ago
        On the other hand, having a Pole Star is a great idea. It’s not _that_ hard to construct south out of the Southern Cross, but a star (close enough to) on the pole is smart…
      • Normille 4y ago
        >Good luck finding the Big Dipper down under! Good luck finding it in Britain. It's called "The Plough" here.
        • dylan604 4y ago
          A rose by any other name is still a rose. Pretty sure a Brit said that.
  • Taniwha 4y ago
    Their sun too
• codeflo 4y ago
  I’m not from the US, and neither is the sun, of course. I do believe that the “clockwise” direction was established to match the direction of the shadow movement on a sundial in the Northern hemisphere. It’s not just maps, even clocks are Eurocentric. :) However, the construction is easy to adapt to counterclockwise sun movement in the Southern hemisphere by flipping everything around: point the 12 (!) towards the sun and take half of the angle from the 12 to the hour hand. This angle points North.