The watch method is the trick most people remember from a childhood book: point the hour hand at the sun, halve the angle to twelve, and there is south. It is quick, it takes ten seconds, and on a winter afternoon in Scotland it is remarkably good. On a midsummer morning in southern England it can send you 20 degrees or more off line, and in the tropics it can…
In this lesson
The watch method (northern hemisphere)
Why it works
How
With a digital watch or phone
Common mistakes
The watch method (southern hemisphere)
Accuracy of the watch method
Where the error comes from
How big the errors get
Using it well
Finding the sun through cloud
What it is
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