Sirius is South at Midnight on New Year’s Eve
The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, will be due south at midnight on New Year’s Eve. This is true every year.* Depending on…
The brightest star in the night sky, Sirius, will be due south at midnight on New Year’s Eve. This is true every year.* Depending on…
Wildflowers help us to navigate in so many ways. Look at the wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare, above. You may have noticed that the stems are…
My thanks to Adele in Australia for this fascinating email. Hi Tristan,I just read your article on navigating the Sahara with Tuareg tribesmen – fascinating,…
Whenever light hits particles, either in our atmosphere or in space, some of that light is scattered and some of it gets reflected back relatively…
It is that time of year when nature likes to get out her frost compasses for us to admire. I took this photo last Friday…
We may never know the exact method that the earliest explorers used to find their way, but there is a friendly finger of suspicion that…
Finding South Using the Stars In the northern hemisphere Polaris, the North Star, tends to get all the attention when it comes to finding direction…
I’m just back from six days in Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands. In the foreground of the first picture you can probably make out some…
Happy New Year! At times like this, I sometimes wonder what the Earth and Sun would say to each other if they could talk. They…
Happy Equinox All! At nine minutes past three this morning, GMT, the sun was overhead the equator. To celebrate, here are a few things that…
On my night walk earlier, the stars were on great form. I like to use lots of different techniques for fun and practice, but Orion…
Churches are well worth a minute of navigational inquiry. The church itself is likely to show a preference for an east-west alignment, with the altar…
After selling out in under 48 hours on Amazon and elsewhere, the book has been reprinted and is now available again at most shops –…
…and he was high in the sky, which reminded me of one of the simplest and most beautiful of natural navigational celestial techniques. Orion is…