Using a Compass Clinometer slope, dip, and angle.
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Learn how to use the clinometer on your compass to measure slopes (dip) and angles to treetops and even the sun! I demonstrate a great approach to measure the angle of the sun during celestial events such as the solstice or equinox.
Great video. I love good, solid, straight forward information like this that we can use in multiple situations.
Amazing explanation! THX very much!
Thank you so much for this very easy to follow tutorial, John! I gotta say that the "split my glasses" move caught me off guard but it was funny hahaha
This was an incredibly engaging and straight to the point video, thank you for uploading!
Thanks for the video. I’m researching the Suunto Compass MC-2 vs. the K&R Alpin. These are the recommended compasses for a survival course I’ll be taking. I think you just sold me on the K&R Alpin. Thanks again for your video.
Thanks I was wondering what that lil booger was for !! Now that arrow not only makes sense but the tip about setting east to west makes it actually work👍
I knew I was at the right channel when I saw the hand/foot holds on the tree :^D Outstanding video! subbed and saved!
Excellent, simple instructions.
Good, easy, straightforward help. Thanks
fabulous video. Thank you for sharing
Fabulous. Thank you!
Great explanation!
Excellent explanation. Thank you sir
Nice tips, thanks
The sun trick is brilliant
Great tip. I have to share this with my orientation enthusiasts friends.
Thanks, that is a neat idea. Useful if you're thinking of navigating at sea the old way. Sextans have a dark lense, but this can be just as useful of a method
I just learnt also in another sextant tutorial that is is actually why pirates used to wear eye patches, because of burning out their sight trying to take regular readings
thanks :)
but what if i set my declination, edmonton its like 14 degrees East,
4:26 whoa whoa whoa!! What kind of eyeglasses are those and why do they come apart like that? What is the purpose. I've never seen that before
I wonder if my compass has a clinometer, it looks very similar to yours
@Sonja Rosas I totally wasn't expecting to see that happen. It's like someone casually removing their ear or something. I've had reading glasses sold cheap before and they never came apart like that.
Nice nice nice
Do you line up with E if your in the East and W if youbare in the West?
Does it matter if you set it at East or west? Suunto says west, thanks
So what would I use the angle of the sun for? Practical field uses????
Way late, but here goes;
The sun moves 15 degrees per hour (15 X 24 = 360).
So you can tell how much sunlight you have got left of the day, by measuring how many lots of 15 degrees the sun is above the horizon.
Granted you can easily estimate this by holding out your hand in front of you and counting the number of fingers between the sun and the horizon - with each finger being 15 minutes (or 1 hour per four fingers).
Just curious what are some practical applications of this information? Why would one need the angle of a tree or hill or the sun in the field? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, just trying to learn the in's and out's. Great video!
For a hill in winter with snow. Avalanche most likely at 30 degrees to 45 degrees. Knowing this may save your life
Archaeologist use it to determine if the slope would be a significant factor in determine cultural sites. Over a certain percent slope, context gets lost and they want to avoid it.
@@RoOnomad125 that's super interesting--Thanks!
It is also handy in advanced navigation practices. Boundary and water are not permanent features, contours ARE however. Using a Clinometer periodically can be handy for confirmation when using contours. Not sure about the practicality of measuring the angle of the sun though.
Great demo. What is the make & model of your compass?
It looks like the Suunto MC-2.
The brand is on the compass. TurnOnSport.
For some reason I'm just really interested in compasses
when hommie just split his glasses in 2... i was shook
A crude solar angle is pretty useless for land navigation. Even if you had time tables and were lucky enough to only be one degee off, that's an error of sixty nautical miles. As the error could be either way, you'd have to allow a one hundred twenty mile circle of uncertainty--that's nautical miles.
Please, someone, tell me what use is solar elevation in this context?
The trigonometry of tree height has long been illustrated as a use for clinometers. When has a hiker needed to measure a tree's height-in real life?
My compass is not as nifty as yours, no inclinometer; I only carry it as a backup for my gps. Very interesting vid nevertheless!
So obviously you know how far away the sun is and how close it is
32 miles wide 3000 miles away
I measure the sun as it gets almost out of my sight ( low on the flat horizon), theres lots of forest fires here which provide a great filter
Also with welding masks or acetylene goggles you can safely look at the sun. They just dont want us to know how close it is or how big it is because this info leads us to what's really at the north pole(magnetic mountain)
Measure the full moon as well, and calculate its distance
Yeah, no. (Hopefully, you were just drunk and/or stoned when you wrote that.)
The average earth ↔️ sun distance is approximately 147.72 million kilometers. Since the earths orbit around the sun is slightly eccentric, that distance varies between -1.7% and +1.7%.
The diameter of our sun is 1.3927 million kilometers, which means that the angular width of the sun when observed from earth, is 0.53°. (Degrees.)
In other words, you were WAAY off!
On second thought..
(And I hope I’m wrong here, but..)
Perhaps you have made the mistake of trusting unsubstantiated claims of people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect, who think they have “special knowledge” about the earth being flat, and that “THEY” are hiding it from us for some unknown (but definitely nefarious) reason.
I honestly hope that you haven’t done yourself the disservice of being that gullible. But that IS the case, I feel sorry for you, and I hope that you eventually get to the point where you can finally rid yourself of the cognitive bias, that I think you have.
I know that it won’t be easy, but for your own sake, please try. I hope the best for you.
Ps. I don’t know you, and I have no I’ll will against you. So please don’t take this as a personal attack. I’m not that kind of person. I truly do hope that you’ll come out of this with your dignity and self respect intact.
@FukTheGender Agenda I'd get outta here with this crap if I could, problem is I cant escape the dome, same as NASA hahaha 30,000 reels of telemetry data gone missing, bubbles in space, petrified wood found on the moon, footprint from the moon doesnt match the boot. Astronauts on wires and green screens, nasa even admits that the picture of earth from space is photoshopped "because it has to be"
shadow magic dont trust it