Abstract
This article describes how to accurately determine the time of the Sun's transit and the north-south direction by observing a stick's shadows. The same observations can be used to determine the latitude and longitude of the location of the observation. Calculating the latitude and longitude is particularly simple for certain dates. Copyright © 2004, Ping-Wai Kwok. Copyright assigned to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 106-114 |
| Journal | Astronomy Education Review |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Mar 2004 |