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Thank you Luigi, I have seen Crux and Canopus. Gonna go try this on my Redshift program.

flash wrote: Easter Island is at 27 degrees south. I think if you could see Polaris you'd miss Easter Island by alot.

Ah ha ! Thank you for your comment. Shows I've never been there and am not thinking. This raises yet another question : so if you can't see Polaris, what do you use to navigate by ?

Thanks again Art, very interesting ! I'll remember that the next time talk to my seafaring friends as it's unlikely that navigational job will ever fall to me

thank you neufer. is that a big error ? like, would you miss say : Easter Island??

11 hours/(24 hours/day) x 1 circle/day = 11/24 circle or slightly less than a semi-circle ;=) Gottch'a & thanks, just not on my toes and a bit lazy at the hour I looked at the photo :oops: :oops: :wink: Still I am surprised to see what a relatively large diameter there is for the Polaris trail....

Thank you , very lovely and interesting composition. But why is the Polaris startrail a semi-circle ? instead of a dot or an almost complete circle ...

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