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@kfist @histoire @nine @awg @ocean22 wait do you actually know how to do that
can you teach me
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@histoire @nine @kfist @awg @ocean22 naruhodonaa!
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@hakui @histoire @awg @nine @ocean22
Figure out the angular size of your fingers when your arm is outstretched. You can do this by outstretching your arms, making palms, bend your fingers so they're perpendicular to your arms (your palm should now be facing you). Now hold one palm out so your pinky finger is flush with the horizon. Then put your other palm atop the first, then your first palm atop that, and alternate, counting how many times you do this until your arms are now right above you. For me, it was about 15 times.
Now you've figured out how many outstretched palms subtend 90 degrees. For me, it was 15, so 90/15=6. That means each one of my fingers is roughly 1.5 degrees in visual angle when my arm is outstretched.
Now, the Sun moves across the sky 360 degrees in 24 hours, or 15 degrees every hour, or 3 degrees every 15 minutes. Since an outstretched palm subtends 6 degrees, it represents half an hour of time. Now look at the Sun, and do the palm-over-palm thing along the apparent path of the Sun until you reach the horizon at due east or due west (not directly from the Sun to the nearest horizon!). The point at which the Sun rises and sets is essentially due east and west, but it's a bit more southerly during the Winter and a bit more northerly during the Summer.
So that means if I go outside in the afternoon and count 7 hands from the Sun to the rough point at which it will set, that means it's (7*30m = 210m) 3.5 hours until it sets.
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@hakui @histoire @nine @awg @ocean22 Apologies, it should be 360 in 24hours, 15 degrees every hour, and 3.75 degrees every 15 minutes, and 2.5 degrees every 10, and 1.5 degrees every 6 minutes. If your outstretched palm subtends 6 degrees, then it's 0.4 hours, or 24 minutes. Each finger would be 6 minutes of time. Calculate accordingly.
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@kfist @histoire @nine @awg @ocean22 that is actually super cool, now if i can remember it when i want to use it..
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