How the ancients navigated

[Sirius]

Use the Southern Cross to find due south
https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patte...tial-pole/

Want the maps? Find the path to Lugh


edit: could have done this in one post sorry

edit2: once you know the southern cross try this

Above, the gemméd azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The wingéd globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-Khonsu!

[Harte]

  It was longitude which was the difficult one to do . As there had to be an element of time involved. In the Piri Reis maps the prime Longitude seemed to the GP. 

That's astonishing, given that Egypt doesn't even appear on the Piri Reis map.
You must have superhuman discernment.

Harte

[annonentity]

That's astonishing, given that Egypt doesn't even appear on the Piri Reis map.
You must have superhuman discernment.

Harte

Thank you

[annonentity]

Use the Southern Cross to find due south
https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patte...tial-pole/

Want the maps? Find the path to Lugh


edit: could have done this in one post sorry

edit2: once you know the southern cross try this

Above, the gemméd azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The wingéd globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-Khonsu!

You have to be at 25 degrees longitude to see the Southern cross briefly in April... The GP is at 30.

[Sirius]

You have to be at 25 degrees longitude to see the Southern cross briefly in April... The GP is at 30.

Nice try, the night sky is filled with stars

[annonentity]

True but they move.

[Sirius]

True but they move.

watch out for the trees

[Byrd]

edit2: once you know the southern cross try this

Above, the gemméd azure is
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The wingéd globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-Khonsu!

There's one rather large problem here --that was written by Aleister Crowley, who was British and hardly an ancient navigator.

[argentus]

This is not a PSA;   I would just ask everyone remember to speak to each other gently as friends and fellow/fella travelers with respect,  on the road to discovery.   Please don't respond to this post, because it's not a PSA.  

[Sirius]

There's one rather large problem here --that was written by Aleister Crowley, who was British and hardly an ancient navigator.

And you are unable to draw the lines from the stars by triangulating to the ground without doing it on paper, I just look..this isn't an insult. The poem is for visualization...