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Really excellent. Since I live in a high rise I've marked the cardinal directions on the floor and walls and been trying to develop a spatial intuition for the
by DiggyJohnson 2y ago
Really excellent. Since I live in a high rise I've marked the cardinal directions on the floor and walls and been trying to develop a spatial intuition for the ecliptic, essentially trying to be able to easily imagine myself tilted in the northern hemisphere subtropics rotating around a sphere rotating around the sun. End goal would be an automatic intuition of where to look for the Sun, Moon, and all the visible planets. This sounds insane typing it out but its very passive and genuinely satisfying. Not being on the equator and the natural tilt of the Earth are the two factors that make this most difficult, of course.
- FredPret 2y agoI get this. You’ve got me wondering how to get this project Wife Approved Status
- dmd 2y agoMy wife came with 9 telescopes in various states of disrepair.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoThat's okay; we don't kinkshame here.
- andrepd 2y agoNerds often marry other nerds ;)
- seumars 2y agoCheck out the North Paw Directional Anklet. It’s basically a compass that vibrates whenever you face magnetic north. From what I’ve read people seem to develop a sense of direction pretty quickly.
- incognito124 2y agoYou'll be sad to find out the company went out of business a long time ago
- bregma 2y agoThe one they gave me seems to vibrate when I face any direction but only when I leave the house.
- jmkd 2y agoI built an ecliptic pathfinder in the Black Desert in Egypt a few weeks ago. It's a piece of land art comprising three piles of rocks on the near horizon, each marking the position of sunrise (if you are stood in an approx 200 metre by 5 metre strip) for the summer solstice towards the north east, the spring and autumn equinoxes to the east and the winter solstice towards the south east.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoThat is fantastic.
- jcims 2y agoIt's not insane in the least. I try to always make a point of observing the ecliptic when I travel, it creates a wonderful interconnectedness to places all over the planet. There are going to be some lovely conjunctions in the next few months that will provide a great opportunity to share this with people. It's actually pretty intuitive when there are 3 or 4 visible planets in a row once someone points it out.