Creating a Star Dial – Telling the Time from the Stars
A Guest Blog by Chloé. We stare up at the stars, eyes wide, I didn’t want to miss it this time! The children had shouted…
A Guest Blog by Chloé. We stare up at the stars, eyes wide, I didn’t want to miss it this time! The children had shouted…
The following article by Tristan Gooley was published in Navigation News in March 2010. My research to date has failed to uncover another soul who…
A big thanks to Mark Evans at Outward Bound Oman, for sending over images and the actual star sightings used by Bertram Thomas, from when…
A big thank you to James of James Walker Photography for his kind permission to reproduce this image from Umbria, Italy. I have come across…
In this photo, one of the Outward Bound Oman instructors, who I visited recently, is being taught how to use a traditional and beautifully simple…
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…
Last night the conditions felt right for a walk in the woods. There were plenty of clouds, but large gaps suggested that the stars would…
UPDATE: My sources tell me that the first is a Magpie Inkcap (Coprinopsis picaceus) and the second is Green Elf Cup/Wood cup/Stain (Chlorociboria aeruginascens). My…
Once more my pre-dawn ‘Batsense’ kicked in and I awoke before five with an urgent desire to go outside. It was not the pressure on…
After an enjoyable private course on Friday – we finished standing in a field looking at Orion, the Plough, Cassiopeia and, of course, Polaris –…
My thanks to Richard, who sent in this picture from a lad’s walking weekend along the Jurassic Coast. He was given a private course as…
This just in… Tristan Many thanks for a fantastic day yesterday. I learnt so much and was stimulated also by the opportunity to apply what…
Northern natural navigators look at the Plough pretty much every night that is not completely overcast and yet we could argue that it gets overlooked.…
A good morning for the stars, but a bit damper in West Sussex than camels would like. Still, no reason not to enjoy an excerpt…
Last night was one of those occasions where the moon was the natural navigator’s best option. At about 10pm the sky overhead was overcast with…