How to navigate by the stars

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Published on April 2, 2011

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My daughter asked me to teach her how to navigate by the stars. My friend the Wayback machine showed me how, courtesy of Quietbay.net.

replay.waybackmachine.org/20071206161519/http://www.quietbay.net/Science/astronomy/nightsky/

The little tutorial through that link will basically teach you how to navigate by the stars in about 5-10 minutes. I took one of the images from the tutorial, traced the important parts in Inkscape, deleted the image, labeled it, and scaled it down to fit on a sticky note.

Since the Inkscape->Gcode extension I used does not fill in paths, the large black swath you see is really just an outline - so it doesn't obscure anything.

Instructions

1. Print.
2. Navigate by the stars.

Head's up - the Gcode I'm using is from the autohoming Gcode hack on Schmarty's Inkscape extension. ( thingiverse.com/thing:6794 ) If you're not running opto-endstops, you will want to delete the autohoming stuff.
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Got one for the Southern Hemisphere?

You have to use the constellation "Crux" in the southern hemisphere https://secure.wikimedia.org/w...

Dang... no... I guess turning it upside down won't help?