How To Navigate Using the Stars
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- One of the most useful skills in early times was to be able to navigate using the stars. With this ability, sailors and explorers were able to venture through their lands and even discover new ones. Here's a little on how they did it.
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It's been 45 years since I was a Navy navigator, ships and aircraft. This video was a nostalgic reminder of those days. Thank you.
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Only a few people loves educational channels lol
I mean, this channel is fairly new and growing rapidly, so it isn’t really a crime.
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Thanks for watching, I hope you learn and enjoy!
Another trick: The elevation to Polaris is the same as your latitude. Flat Earthers hate that fact because it proves that the Earth is a sphere.
GoSlash27 stars are holograms created by “big-globe” to trick you to think it’s a sphere smh
Elevation to polaris? What do you mean? In centimeters at arm length?
@@philipfortygin7660 in degrees. Like 30° North. It's easier with a sextant
@@richardescobar9306 : So if the earth is flat (as you seem to believe) why can't you see the North star from Australia?
Philip - Elevation in degrees to correspond to degrees of latitude. At the equator the star is at the horizon or 0 degrees; at the North Pole the star is directly above or at 90 degrees.
They skipped this lesson in school, for the last 200 years.
Just use your GPS, dummass
No, seriously, it's criminal how much useful stuff *they don't teach in school
@@ricois3 what if you go on a trip some where and get robbed. Now how useful are those lessons going to be. People like you always depend on something. You must be a pretty pathetic human being.
Well, to be fair, how useful is it for the general person? Most people stay on land, in developed countries, where you can walk in ANY direction and WILL run into a settlement/road/etc. of some sort within a few hours because they are so densely populated.
For general, planned travels we have road signs, GPS, and so on.
If you DO buy a boat and want a permit to go out to sea it's mandatory usually to have to take a course/lessons which teaches you important knowledge for that and where you DO learn some degree of manual navigation.
So why teach something that the average person will not need in their life and if they do go down a path where they do need it, it's mandatory for them to learn THEN? :)
@@sleepysera it's always good to know a lot of things because life is full of surprises. One day your in a place were there are a lot of people and the next day you could have an accident were a car crashes into you and your car falls of a cliff to who knows were. And probably you can't react right after impact waking up days later when your phone's dead. Not everybody is prepared for something like that to happen. And I hope that never happens to you or to anybody because it would hurt more to realise you had the chance to learn the skills to get were you needed to be than being in that situation. Cheers!
@@sleepysera No wonder these countries are getting filled with weak and stupid men. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m boutta get me and the homies lost in the ocean talkin bout “i know how to read the stars we don’t need no map”
Okay pop off Moana
You need a boat first, also, coincidentally: Compasses are not sooo important when sailing. The use only became more or less prominent in the past 200 years, slowly. No one needed to know where north is when sailing because sailors never left the shore so muc hthat they wouldn't see land anymore. People generally would just edge along the coastline at all times until they recognised landmarks.
This is really interesting. I learned a lot from this video.
How did you get lost here, lol. You struck me as the type that's more interested in language and social issues.
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I JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED as the video is talking about stars :)
Wow I've been looking for this information for years thank you so much! How is the sextant used ?
Maybe I'll make a video on how to use a sextant soon! Stay tuned!
From what I understand of the sextant, I'm no expert, it s essentially a mirror and a protractor. it calculates the angle of Polaris, depending on where the star in question is you ll get a latitude on an accurate navigational map.
@@AtlasPro1 ok lah
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@@AtlasPro1 Lol so how's that sextant video going?
Instructions unclear, got morooned on an Island.
Lucky, I’m stuck on the moon
Yeah, I somehow ended up on Mars
That's what a Portuguese would say 😂, u dont need this when u have a gauge on ur plane lmao
amazingly well explained, it's a crime to see so few subscribers for this channel, hopefully that will change soon.
Glad to see you enjoyed! I sure hope so too! Thanks for watching :)
After almost 4 years his channel's subscriber count is about to cross 1 Million, so he's done quite well.
If my brain wasn't dead from binge-watching RUclips videos all day, I might just be able to remember all this and actually use it some day.
I relate
Just eat beetroots, tuna, salmon, dark chocolate, spinach, berries, etc & you're good! Maybe hook up your computer to a tv and invest in an exercise bike & your golden. 2 tasks 1 stone.
Just go outside a few times and find some constelations. It's so easy to understand everything after.
The best map I found is on wikipedia page "Northern celestial hemisphere"
@@bananaforscale1283 I know a website, in which it shows real time stars and planet in the direction you point your phone. It made me learn all the constellation, patterns and star names
Literally the most underrated channel ever, like how does THIS not have a million views yet?!???!? Love you videos thank you so much for the quality content❤️
Another cool trick I learned in astronomy class that works in the northern hemisphere: if you find Polaris, take your outstretched fists, and line the bottom of one fist up with the horizon, then stack your fists one on top of each other until you reach Polaris. Each stack = 10 degrees north latitude, so this allows you to roughly gauge how far north of the equator you are. Since you'll also know the directions, this can get you a pretty good gauge of your actual global position relative to the equator. In case, you know, you didn't realize already you were in Canada or something.
and how can you get the longitude?
*4:58* Thank you SO much for calling us Kiwis! The word "New Zealander" it is highly unused by us Kiwis.
I always thought that was funny, it's like calling Americans ''Burger''
@@sirmounted8499 Kiwi's that New Zealanders are referred to as are a bird... The kiwi fruit is Chinese. So it'd be more like calling Americans by some form of endemic bird or animal.
Most people I know predominantly call themselves New Zealanders...
Are kiwis the maouri?
@@sirmounted8499 Although hamburgers aren't really "american" anyways. Do you think it's coincidence it's named after the german town?
I may never use these things but i still found this channel and video very informative and lovely, the ancient stories told in the beginning of this about cultures and stars were very beautiful and i am truly blessed that i ever found this video. Thank you to all the creators and those ancient forefathers and mothers who ever worked on development of such wonderful methods for humankind.
This is undoubtedly one of the most informative videos I watched on RUclips. Thank you very much. You have earned a subscriber and a big fan!
Fascinating info. Sorry Flat Earthers, this only works on a spherical planet. 😉
Exactly
It's quite funny how mistaken you are
Imagine, somewhere in the milky way, an intelligence life using the sun for directional navigation.
Its so exciting to actually go outside and do these steps, i remembered the location of the orion belt in the night sky and used it as east west references, it just works magically on long distance travels, like 4000km or so
I became curious about this subject when I was 10, I used to get an sky view app in my mother's smartphone, a telescope ,binoculars and go outside specially in the summer nights to see the international space station or what ever I could see.
They should teach this on schools, it's not hard and useful for fun/survival situations.
Every other culture: mysterious legends with stories attached about meaning of life
Turks: lol hole-y sheet
Just found your channel man. WOW. Learning so much. Been fascinated by the world and this kind of stuff my entire life. Thank you dude and keep it up!
Man every video of yours is my favorite just discovered your channel . Just can't stop watching it.
The stars are spinning counterclockwise around polaris, not clockwise like 3:47
I bike commute and work shifts. I ride home in the dark around 22:00 and my commute lasts about 50 minutes on dark country paths. I am always amazed at Orion's presence and I know how to find Polaris and use it to figure out if I am riding southeast or north east. It's definitely interesting to pedal along and notice how my position changes as I ride around hills and suddenly Orion says I am heading north, well, the north star is sometimes to my far right and then directly in front.
In the morning I ride north from work and see Venus brightly shining as the sky turns different shades of blue. Sometimes it is raining and I don't use a compass.
Learning to navigate with the sun positions is also fun.
Plus riding all year I get to experience the seasons. I took a basic astronomy course in college and the night sky is amazing.
After watching video
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not sure if it was covered in another comment, but in the norther hemisphere the angle from horizon to Polaris IS your latitude. I.E. Polaris is directly above the North Pole (close enough) at 90°. The North Pole's latitude is...? yup, 90°. On the equator, Polaris is on the horizon, 0°. This all assumes an unobstructed horizon, best observed at sea of course. Therefore, if Polaris is 38° above the horizon, you're latitude is 38°N (this ONLY works in the northern hemisphere, of course). And ALL you need is an inclinometer or a protractor and a weighted line.
This is the best star navigation video I've found. So much detail and fun to watch! The background music was great!
Hold on!
Have you ever ponder (the truth) about Islam read the Quran it was revealed 1400*years ago! to a (God chosen) Man who could not read or write, He is one of the Messengers of God. In Chapter 6 verse 97check for yourselves! go to Quran.com/6/97
So many things to reflect on!
THE QURAN IS THE ONLY UNALTERED WORD OF GOD
What it contains is a proof just in case you're not familiar. Islam is a way to the truth.
I JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED as the video is talking about stars :)
have a good day!
7:09 - Isn't that supposed to be northeast, not northwest? A few seconds earlier, you mentioned that if the star rises, you're facing east.
Yeah, I think they made a mistake. I spent a few minutes trying to work it out when I heard that
These old times sailors are really amazing... just how the hell did they discover these stars
you can see them by pointing out or mapping ones that have certain features
@@umstot3120 oh yea that makes sense... pretty simple if you think about it... such embarassment. thanks mate. still very cool to know there were such huge star nerds that would really track these patterns with written documents and hand drawings.
@@umstot3120 yea.. North star should have been easy to figure out.. the rest tho.. i cant imagine having the perseverance to 1) observe all these stars for years, 2) be able to consistently locate them every time, and 3) figure out these weird patterns between their relative positions and the true north/south.. I know its not just one dude who figured all this out, but still.. someone had to put a lot of thought into this..
@@funnypallu Some people must've had too much time lol
@@vernzmarcobenitez2332 which is exactly what they had back then. there were also minimal distractions.
Great video. Just confused with the last part. If the star rose diagonally to the left, would that not be north east? Because if it rises up it is east, sinks is west, left is north and right is south.
I'd also like to know this!
Yeah, it seems like he could benefit from having someone re-read his scripts, but still does an amazing job for one guy.
His first sentence was correct. East is up, West is down, North is left and South is right.
he meant from northern hemisphere or it could work in any of hemisphreres??
I think he had a common mistake when he said northwest, it's correctly northeast. And the two sticks method works in any hemisphere because the earth always rotates counterclockwise (from the top looking down) so someone in the northern hemisphere looking south towards a star at the equator would see it move right and someone in the southern hemisphere looking north at the same star would see it move left.
Man this is amazing. To think, every human that ever existed, looked up towards the sky and saw in awe the exact same thing we do. And that stars have never failed to inspire us. From stargazing to navigating unknown seas during the night, timelessly. What a thought!
The music also fits perfectly.
Well no, they saw much more of it than we do. I'm 43 and I've still never seen the Milky Way in real life. Light pollution. It's on my bucket list to go somewhere really dark and spend a few hours star gazing.
Well, and if we’re being completely accurate, not only does the wobble of the earth on its axis over time cause our poles to point at a different point in the sky, but also celestial events (supernova, for instance) mean that the overall makeup of the night sky has seen changes since we’ve been around.
But the stars, generally. Absolutely! 🌟
Always wondered how the Polynesians did it!
same as ancient Malays
@@zymrzm745 Well we are their ancestors so there's that.
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Also check out the Marshallese stick charts! I know they're Micronesian and not Polynesian, but it's pretty cool. They mapped ocean swells
@@Dennodq well thank you 😂😂🌴🌴
The information in the video proves that it is IMPOSSIBLE that people on Earth EVER thought the Earth was flat. Earth being a globe is a basic primordial fact.
Indeed. Only people living comfortably in well lit cities could ever think that.
Southern hemisphere people unite! I love my Brazilian friends here in NZ
The crux eally stands out. That constellation including the two pointers are really bright. I've been learning Polynesian star constellations, that our ancestors used to navigate all over the Pacific.
we call Oberon's Belt "As Três Marias" in Brazil, literally The Three Maries
Didn't know the two stick trick, would probably be helpful for a night with few stars visible.
actually you have to be in totally cloud free and light free places. this to get a clearer vision in the night... i just think my logic. just sharing kah3
I have a question about the final part of the video. If the star moves to the left means you are facing north and the star rises means you are facing east, isn't that means if the star moves diagonally to the left up you are facing northeast but not northwest (as stated in the video)?
I have the same question but haven't seen an answer yet.
I was thinking the same thing...
There's a easier way to find south with only the crux, you just take the greater length between two stars, follow 4,5 times that on the line then go straight down
you mean the two stars along the long axis of crux? and you you mean four and half or four or five lengths? thanks!
@@b.griffin317 Yes the two stars along the long axis of crux! And it is four and a half times
@@b.griffin317 In some countries they use a comma instead of a dot for the decimal separator and dots instead of commas for thousands and millions. No idea why there are two systems.
@@fernandoroque You mean you go smallest length twice then go right 5 smaller lengths, then down 6 smaller lengths, then right 5 smaller lengths, then up one more smaller lengths.
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This was very cool. Gonna have to rewatch it several times and practice in person in order to fully memorize it
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One observation, in my humble opinion the Autumn equinox is on the 22nd or 23rd of September, not on the 21st.
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Walking home late at night Ive always noticed Polaris and three stars in alignment. Ive heart of the Orion constellation and nebula but it never registered that they were the same three stars. Your channel is something special my dude. Keep it going.
P.S. - you show insane dedication to your work and it shows with you staying under the 10 minute mark.
I used this info today. Almost after a year. Thanks buddy!
There are actually a lot of stars that can be seen in both hemispheres!
Congrats on the quality video! You already got a subscriber in brazil. Keep up the good work and you'll soon be recognized!
Wow, this was fascinating! Doesn’t matter how much we have evolved, we still gaze up at the night sky in wonderment. The same way our ancestors did for thousands of years. We take so much for granted every day. But how humbling it is to just look up at the sky, looking at those beautiful heavenly bodies and realise just how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.
Thank you very much! The video was so amazing... I find it very useful n interesting. Keep up the good works. I'm the new learner❤🙏😊
This video was amazing! Thank you!
You can use Cassiopeia (lazy w) to find polaris too
It would be nice to see the stars again like our ancestors did for centuries. ✨
Was the animation for the last tip in reference to facing northwest accurately done? Based off the previous information, the star would have to move down and to the left to be facing northwest. The animation showed the star moving up and to the left. If up is east, and left is north, should this not instead be northeast? Minor mistake if it is one, but I’m just sincerely confused and wondering if diagonal movement changes things some how.
I think I'll teach the kids the last stick way. There are no ifs and buts about it. Thanks a lot for making my geography lessons so much easier and very much more interesting.
Neat video-- thanks-- but I'm curious about one thing. When using the "two stick" method, the narrator said a star moving up and to the left meant you were facing northwest. But if a star rising means you're facing east-- and a star moving left means you're facing north-- I'd think diagonal movement between these would mean northeast. Was that a mistake?
Just saw the video and wanted to make same comment. I think the narrator is wrong
Yes. I caught that too.
3:26 it's actually pronounced "Doo-bay" and Crux is the smallest of the 88 constellations. the pointer stars of the southern Hemisphere are Alpha and beta Centauri
7:12 by your logic that’s north east....you had one job...one job!!!!! lol
Neat history touch with the various cultures. Thank you! -In Tai Chi, (which can mean, “the way”) from over 2500 years ago, they refer to both the North Star, and the Seven Sisters. -Goodness, imagine sailing out from ancient China, into the vast ocean. “And a star to steer her by...”
I called the southern cross (crux) the kite.
I can see it from south Africa, I never knew it was famous. I studied it on my own, the different Times it rises, which time of the year is it visible. (It's not visible from around August to January, though if I wake up around 4:00 A in morning around January, I can see it rise from east and will disappear around 5 Am as the sun rises n the sky becomes blue.)
I called it the kite, cause there are two other bright stars below it, resembling the string. The right side of the cross points to another set of stars that make an arrow that point north and it's sides point west and east.
Such a well made video, very informative! Great work!
I always found it impressive that people could actually navigate like this
I like the science conclusion/story. Big badass balls of awesome power floating in the sky. Perfect because it's the final solution to the riddle of what that actually is.
How does this have so few views?
My thoughts exactly :P
Nowadays people use GPS.
There's only us left, the rest wouldn't know which direction to go if the systems went down. 😉
The pointer stars are hopeless for finding the southern cross, they could be any two stars in the sky. Just find the milky way, pretty easy, southern cross is on it.
At 7:10, did you mean Northeast?
yeah he didnt say whether it was east or west, just diagonal left. But the the picture should be north east. Maybe he made the diagram after he wrote the script lol?
@@user-vf9sv1xu3v Yeah maybe :)
I thought the same thing.. it should be NE.. im glad u got that
Oof I was stressin about my understanding of it when he said that haha, thanks for validating my confusion haha
There we go, there is a comment about that already.
Ah finally, some useful navigation tips for when I time travel to the early 1000s. Blew all my inheritance on the time machine, forgot to add any navigation equipment.
You mentioned 5 lengths of the Big Dipper's pointer stars to find Polaris when it is obscured. When the Big Dipper is obscured, you can use Cassiopeiae to fine Polaris. That Big W is as easy to find as the Big Dipper. It's on the other side of Polaris.
I was taught navigation by stars few times before, learned it from my dad a retired Marine and I was taught from manuals while in the Marine Corps and used it in he Army which doesn't teach it, shocked that this isn't more common knowledge!
great video!!!
you should add some links or biography
Thanks! I've been meaning to put links in all my videos, hopefully someday soon!
the problem with using Orion for directional navigation is that it is a winter constellation. Its not always visible all year.
There is a problem, Orion is only visible from June to December in the Equator
I can see orion here in Brazil now. I am at 7° South.
Intresting. By any chance, can you link me the source? I haven't been able to find any sources so far...
It’s September 25th and I can easily see Orion from about 2am to sunrise
With the 2 sticks trick: if the star moved up and left wouldn't you be facing Northeast and not Northwest? Also, if the star moves left you are facing North ASSUMING that the star is higher in the sky than the celestial pole (polaris). If you picked a star lower than the celestial pole it will move right of you're facing North. Nice trick though. 👍
Orion is only visible in the winter sky. So I guess in the summer you just wait?
You can wait for the equinox to find true east and west, or you can just find north and extrapolate from there :)
I had an idea, but nevermind. It wouldn't work.
You can find south with the three stars in the "head" of Scorpio. When they are perpendicular to the horizon its true south
The Orion sword method gets inaccurate if you are far from equator... It is pretty accurate if you are close to equator. It should be used as a backup method if you're in US or Europe. It is true that they point to the celestial southpole, but in northern hemisphere celestial southpole is hidden by the ground. So you should know your latitude to figure out where is true south on the horizon. Far from the equator, the Orion sword points to south on the horizon only when they are high up in the sky. The problem is you may not know if it is high or not. Close to the equator, like Hawaii or Caribbean, the south pole is not very deep in the ground. So this method is useful only in low latitude.
"How to" part starts at 2:39.
Thanks, I'm going to use this when I go camping with my school
Damn that music got on my nerves
Wow Great!!! I've been wondering about this for a long long time. Now I got some information. Watched some of ur other videos too. Great work, quality content, nicely explained. Wish u more subs views and likes.
It's hard not to dance with the background music!
I'm bookmarking this in case the internet goes down some day
Sigma Octanis is the South Pole star
Yes it is, though due to its magnitude it's barely visible to the naked eye.
Thereby, making it not useful for navigation.
This is one of my secondary fixations!
keep it up
thanks, another one coming soon :)
Good more needed with practical examples
Northwest, or Northeast?
The stick trick is the best part.
Bring back tailed Bears!
Absolutely awesome video. School is so useless today.
Something doesn't add up. so the two stick method:
up= est
down= west
left= north
but left-up= north-west???
Clarification please...
Also confused about this! Answers please :-)
Could it be a mistake?
@@zucced2087 must be
I was watching for that post because I realized the same mistake. From my view it should be "north-east" in the left-up position.
Surely you mean "If it rose diagonally to the left, then you are facing North-East ..."
During the daytime you can use the following trick (provided the sun is casting a shadow. Take a straight (ish) stick and place it in the ground with one end pointing towards the sun (so that the stick casts no shadow). As the Earth moves the stick will begin to cast a shadow and that shadow will point East.
WTF Is up with the background music. Cut it out!
Thank you good sir, i'm writing from Argentina and i always used the southern cross as a reference.
On't mind me, I'm just waiting for the flat-earther outrage.
The mythology stories sure are wrong, but they are also really fascinating telling us about how different cultures different stories about the same cosmos, passing orally from generations to generations.
7:06 If the star rose you’re facing east and if it moved to the left you facing north but if it moved diagonally up left, it’s north west? Did anyone catch that?
Yeah I think it should be north east
The southern cross is so beautiful, i love it's name in Portuguese :) Cruzeiro do Sul
Godddddamn i love this channel
When you observe the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major to be precise, if the sky is dark enough you will notice that the middle star of the handle or the bear tail is actually made of two stars. This observation was used by Napoleon troops as en eye test.
Another fun fact: there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth. Maybe there is another life form in space after all.
Just make sure you don’t have a violent friend aboard to put your lights out
excellent presentation