Shadow-Tip Method.
Step 1. Place a stick or branch into the ground at a level spot where a
distinctive shadow will be cast. Mark the shadow tip with a stone, twig, or
other means. This first shadow mark is always the west direction.
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How the heck is that shadow tip always going to be the west direction?
If I stand on my patio facing North according to a compass, at 7:00 pm, with the sun low on the Western horizon to my left, and put a stick in the ground… the shadow is somehow going to point to my left, the West, towards the setting sun?
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I suspect we’ll need the rest of the steps to understand what this is trying to accomplish.
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